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[402] these two days enables him to invest the garrison a little closer. Holmes and Taylor west of the Mississippi, and Johnston at the east, make fruitless demonstrations to relieve the besieged fortresses. Fresh reinforcements have doubled Grant's army, which, in addition to its siege-labors, has constructed a line of fortifications intended to put a stop to Johnston's attack. Finally, on the 4th of July, Pemberton capitulates, and three days later Gardner surrenders the works at Port Hudson to Banks. Since the 1st of May, Grant's army had taken 42,059 prisoners, and that of Banks 10,584 from the time it took the field in the middle of April. Grant had bought his victory at the cost of 1243 killed, 7095 wounded, and 535 prisoners, or 8873 men in all;1 Banks had lost three or four thousand. But the number of killed and wounded in the armies that were opposed to them amounted to nearly twelve or thirteen thousand; which number, being added to the prisoners taken by these two generals, gives a total of sixty-five thousand combatants taken from the Confederate ranks in the course of three months—a loss still more difficult to be repaired than that of the fortresses and provinces which the sacrifices made by these soldiers were unable to save.
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