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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], No more wooden tenements. (search)
ral Pemberton set aside this order, under the advice of a council of war; and though he had in Vicksburg eight thousand fresh troops, not demoralized by defeat, decided that it "was impossible to withdraw the army from this position, with such morale and material as to be of further service to the Confederacy;" but "to hold Vicksburg as long as possible, with the firm hope that the Government may yet be able to assist me in keeping this obstruction to the enemy's free navigation of the Mississippi river." Vicksburg was greatly imperilled when my instructions from Tullahoma, to concentrate, were neglected. It was less when my orders of the 13th and 15th of May were disobeyed. To this loss were added the labor, privations, and certain capture of a gallant army, when my orders for its evacuation were set aside. In this report I have been compelled to enter into many details, and to make some animated versions upon the conduct of General Pemberton. The one was no pleasant task —