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Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ded to strengthen the main approach along the Jackson road, and to prevent sorties. The positionty-five feet of our redan, also very close on Jackson and Baldwin's ferry roads. I hope you will a, by both besiegers and besieged, and, on the Jackson road, Grant fired a heavy mine on the 25th ofattack Johnston and destroy the road north of Jackson. I cannot say where you will find the most e and artillery force, was now falling back on Jackson. He reached that place on the 7th, and on th, and the lines extended so as to reach the Pearl river, both above and below Jackson. No sooner dne flank or the other, threatening to cross Pearl river, and operate on the enemy's only line of co commanders were instructed to approach the Pearl river. The work of railroad destruction went on th, both flanks of the army extended to the Pearl river, and Sherman sent back for ammunition for attles outside of Vicksburg, the occupation of Jackson, and the capture of Vicksburg and its garriso[7 more...]
Port Gibson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
two thousand men at Vicksburg; three thousand were captured at Champion's hill; nearly two thousand at the Big Black bridge, and at least two thousand others at Port Gibson and Raymond, and during the campaign and siege; while those who escaped with Loring, from Champion's hill, could not have been fewer than four thousand. 32,000Surrendered at Vicksburg. 3,000Captured at Champion's hill. 2,000Captured at Big Black bridge. 2,000Captured at Port Gibson, etc. 4,000Loring. 10,000Killed and wounded in Pemberton's command. 3,000Stragglers. —— 56,000Total. There can no longer be a doubt that many rebel officials persistently and designedly misstated never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a
Dutch Gap (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
rs, shall be discharged upon the conditions and terms following: . . . . Article 4. All prisoners of war to be discharged on parole, in ten days after their capture, and the prisoners now held, and those hereafter to be taken, to be transported to the points mutually agreed upon, at the expense of the capturing party. . . . . Article 7. All prisoners of war now held on either side, and all prisoners hereafter taken, shall be sent with all reasonable dispatch to A. M. Aiken's, below Dutch Gap, on the James river, Virginia, or to Vicksburg, on the Mississippi river, in the state of Mississippi, and there exchanged, or paroled until such exchange can be effected. . . . . General orders, no. 207. war Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington, July 3, 1863. The attention of all persons in the military service of the United States is called to Article 7 of the cartel agreed upon on the 22d of July, 1862, and published in General Orders No. 142, September 25, 1862. Ac
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
. Demonstrations were made by Johnston, and some of his dispatches were intercepted, from which it was discovered that he intended immediately to attempt the forcible relief of the garrison. The works on the Big Black, extending from that river to the Yazoo, a distance of eight miles, were strengthened, in anticipation of such a movement. The troops on the west side of the Mississippi also were on the alert, as there was danger that the rebel general, Richard Taylor, might move up from Louisiana against them. General Taylor is sent by General E. Kirby Smith to cooperate with you from the west bank of the river, to throw in supplies, and to cross with his force, if expedient and practicable. Johnston to Pemberton, June 22d. Grant was constantly warning and directing his officers on the western shore. A continuous siege, and a mighty battle imminent. A citadel surrounded by land and water. The bombardment almost incessant. The beleaguered garrison reduced to quarter ration
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
oners of war to be discharged on parole, in ten days after their capture, and the prisoners now held, and those hereafter to be taken, to be transported to the points mutually agreed upon, at the expense of the capturing party. . . . . Article 7. All prisoners of war now held on either side, and all prisoners hereafter taken, shall be sent with all reasonable dispatch to A. M. Aiken's, below Dutch Gap, on the James river, Virginia, or to Vicksburg, on the Mississippi river, in the state of Mississippi, and there exchanged, or paroled until such exchange can be effected. . . . . General orders, no. 207. war Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington, July 3, 1863. The attention of all persons in the military service of the United States is called to Article 7 of the cartel agreed upon on the 22d of July, 1862, and published in General Orders No. 142, September 25, 1862. According to the terms of this cartel, all captures must be reduced to actual possession, and all p
Donelson (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
re of the heroic army which reopened the Mississippi river. The grade of major-general in the regular army was immediately conferred on the successful soldier, and other honors, votes of thanks, and costly gifts were showered upon him. The country rang with applause, and the victory of Gettysburg occurring on the same day, the spirit of the people rose at once from the gloom and depression into which it had fallen, to an elation and confidence like that it had known after the capture of Donelson. No such success, indeed, had shone on the national cause in all the weary interval of nearly seventeen months. The rebellion never fully recovered from the blow that was dealt it at Vicksburg; communication thus severed, between the trans-Mississippi region and the eastern bank of the mighty river, was never again uninterrupted or secure. The demoralized and dispirited soldiers who straggled all over the South from the captured stronghold, could not be got together again as one army; the
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
men as Mack in his great campaign, while the rebels had twice as many men as Grant, when the latter crossed the Mississippi; although, at the close of the siege, Grant's numbers were more than equal to those of Pemberton and Johnston combined. Napoleon's achievement was accomplished solely by his own splendid strategy and the amazing stupidity of his antagonist; there was not a battle fought in the Ulm campaign. Grant won his results by fighting as well as by strategy, aided, doubtless, by Pemberton's repeated blunders; but he fought five battles, and made two assaults, and prosecuted a siege for over forty days, before he opened the gates of Vicksburg. Besides this, Napoleon's army was composed of veterans, the pride of France, inspirited with long success, selected and controlled by himself alone. Grant's men, on the contrary, were volunteers, many of them entirely raw, all sent to him by others; and, instead of moving fresh from a camp like that of Boulogne, the Army of the Te
Yazoo City (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Grant: My dear General: I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did—march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Halleck was almost equally generous in his praise of a campaign which he had once disapproved. The following letter reflects as much credit on the writer
Mechanicsburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
My arrangements for supplies are ample, and can be expanded to meet any exigency. All I want now is men. On Blair's return, Grant sent a brigade of troops under Brigadier-General Mower, and nearly twelve hundred cavalry, up the Yazoo to Mechanicsburg, to watch the crossings of the Big Black, from Bridgeport, and obstruct the roads. On the 3d of June, one division from Hurlbut arrived, under Brigadier-General Kimball, and was sent at once after Mower to Mechanicsburg, with the same instruMechanicsburg, with the same instructions that Mower had already received. Grant himself went up to Satartia, on the 8th of June, to inspect the condition of affairs there, and became still further convinced that the enemy was collecting a large force at Canton, of course with a view to raise the siege. To Kimball, he said: It is important that the country be left so that it cannot subsist an army passing over it. Wagons, horses, and mules should be taken from the citizens, to keep them from being used with the Southern army.
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
adquarters garrison paroled and marched out of Vicksburg fall of Port Hudson opening of Mississippi river Sherman sent against Johnston Johnston retreats to Jackson Sherman besieges Jackson Jo the siege, and yet remain in possession of Haine's bluff, with undisputed control of the Mississippi river, they could still concentrate resources for a new effort, either against the city itself ohat time, two thousand boats would be built, and the besieged could escape by crossing the Mississippi river. The rebel finished by announcing that houses in Vicksburg were now being torn down to geh to A. M. Aiken's, below Dutch Gap, on the James river, Virginia, or to Vicksburg, on the Mississippi river, in the state of Mississippi, and there exchanged, or paroled until such exchange can be ee the boast of your children that their fathers were of the heroic army which reopened the Mississippi river. The grade of major-general in the regular army was immediately conferred on the succes
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