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Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
of Vicksburg treatment of prisoners Pemberton's headquarters 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 ly contemplating speedy success: Should it be my fortune, general, to get into Vicksburg while you are still investing Port Hudson, I will commence immediately shipping troops to you, and will send such number as you may indicate as being necessary.ight leaven the whole lump of treason. The consequences of this victory were not long delayed. On the 8th of July, Port Hudson surrendered. As soon as its commander, General Gardner, heard of the fall of Vicksburg, he sent a communication to BaGardner a copy of Grant's dispatch announcing the capture of Vicksburg, and Gardner at once proposed the surrender of Port Hudson and its garrison. This event took place the next day. The attempted confederacy was thus cut in twain, and, in the fo
Clinton (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
that can be spared. It was the night of the 5th, before all of Sherman's force reached the Big Black river. Bridges were constructed at once, and on the 6th, the troops were all across. On the 7th and 8th, they marched by separate roads to Clinton. The weather was intensely hot, the dust stifling, but the enemy made no serious opposition to their progress. Evidence accumulated at every step that Johnston, with four divisions of infantry, and a large cavalry and artillery force, was now the demands of two hostile armies. Sherman shared his stock of provisions freely with them; and, with Grant's approval, issued orders for the distribution of two hundred barrels of flour and one hundred barrels of pork. On the 23d, he moved to Clinton, where again the utter exhaustion of the provisions of the country compelled him to supply the hospitals of the enemy, as well as the country people. Supplies for five hundred people for thirty days were left here, in charge of responsible citi
Boulogne (France) (search for this): chapter 10
, 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 Tennessee had spent months amid the swamps and fevers of the Mississippi; while its enterprise was derided as hopeless, and its leader declared incompetent by half the North. The absolute captures at the fall of the two cities were, however, not dissimilar. Napoleon took thirty thousand prisoners, and sixty guns; Grant, as has been seen, nearly thirty-two thousand men, and a hundred and seventy cannon. In each case the prisoners were paroled. Napoleon, surrounded by a n
Mechanicsburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
arcity of engineer officers first ground broken 23d of May engineer operations ingenuity of officers and men enemy's defence sorties Wood's approach loss of the Cincinnati Tuttle's approach Blair's approach Ransom's approach Logan's approach A. J. Smith's approach Carr's approach Hovey's approach Lauman's approach Herron's approach menacing attitude of Johnston correspondence with Banks Osterhaus sent to the Big Black Blair sent to the Yazoo Mower and Kimball sent to Mechanicsburg attack on Milliken's bend arrival of Herron and Parke completion of investment fortification of Haine's bluff corps of observation line of countervallation Pemberton prepares for escape McClernand relieved condition of garrison sufferings of inhabitants mine of June 25th hardships of national troops persistency of Grant final assault fixed for July 6th Pemberton proposes surrender terms of capitulation interview between commanders surrender of Vicksburg treatment of pr
Raymond (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
otions with which they contemplated a spectacle that repaid them a thousand-fold for all their toils, and wounds, and sufferings, they yet could not but pity the humiliation of their foes. No insulting taunt was heard, no cheer of triumph nor mocking cannon saluted the ears of the departing prisoners. Grant's orders were: Paroled prisoners will be sent out of here to-morrow. They will be authorized to cross at the railroad-bridge, and move from there to Edward's ferry, and on by way of Raymond. Instruct the commands to be orderly and quiet as these prisoners pass, to make no offensive remarks, and not to harbor any who fall out of ranks after they have passed. Silently and sadly they marched on, and, in a few hours, Vicksburg was again free from the taint of treason. The parallel between Ulm and Vicksburg is principally in results. Napoleon had twice as many men as Mack in his great campaign, while the rebels had twice as many men as Grant, when the latter crossed the Missis
Bear Creek (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ns to others, or in his own plans of battle or campaign. To Parke, on the 18th, he said: I want the work of intrenching your position pushed with all dispatch; be ready to receive an attack, if one should be made, and to leave the troops free to move out, should the enemy remain where he is. To Ord, on the 19th: Get batteries as well advanced as possible, during the day and night. To Parke, when that commander was ordered to join Sherman: An attack is contemplated, evidently by way of Bear creek, and that within two days. Move out four brigades of your command to support your cavalry, and obstruct their advance as near Black river as possible, until all the forces to spare can be brought against them. Travel with as little baggage as possible, and use your teams as an ordnance and supply train, to get out all you may want from the river. . . . Move out early to-morrow morning, or sooner if you can. To Dennis: An attack upon you is not at all impossible. You will therefore exerc
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
rged 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. According to the term
France (France) (search for this): chapter 10
ined. 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 Tennessee had spent months amid the swamps and fevers of the Mississippi; while its enterprise was derided as hopeless, and its leader declared incompetent by half the North. The absolute captures at the fall of the two cities were, however
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
, as required both by regulations and existing orders of the department. A copy of the address was sent at once to his headquarters, and, the next day, McClernand was relieved of the command of his corps, and ordered home. Major-General Ord was appointed in his stead, subject to the approval of the President. See Appendix for McClernand's order, and the letters of Generals Sherman and McPherson. This was the termination of the troublesome connection with McClernand. It had begun at Cairo, in 1861. McClernand had served under Grant, at Belmont, and Donelson, and Shiloh, but early developed the qualities which afterwards insured his downfall. At first, he had been willing to learn from men versed in their profession and experienced in war; but he soon set about accomplishing his advancement by political means. His efforts, partially successful, to obtain a high command; his protracted machinations to supersede Grant, which were only defeated by the wise counsels of the gene
Herron (search for this): chapter 10
approach Hovey's approach Lauman's approach Herron's approach menacing attitude of Johnston coricsburg attack on Milliken's bend arrival of Herron and Parke completion of investment fortificabe sent, should an attempt to escape be made. Herron's division, from the Army of the Frontier, Dep to within a few feet of the rebel line. In Herron's front a strong line of trench was begun on t so near that the enemy was greatly annoyed by Herron's sharpshooters. While the investment of Viand additional troops from his own department; Herron's division, the strongest in the combined armyore Vicksburg, on the 14th of the same month. Herron was put on the left of the line of circumvallo nearly half of Grant's army. Besides these, Herron and A. J. Smith were notified to be in readineithin your command, to the best advantage. To Herron: Be ready to move with your division at the shwas kept lest any should attempt to escape on Herron's front, and no more deserters were received.
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