Campaigns of the Civil War: Greene, F. V. The MississippiScribner, 1882 - United States |
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13th Corps A. J. Smith's advance Alexandria April Arkansas arrived assault attack Banks Baton Rouge battle Bayou Bayou Sara Big Black Bluff boats Bowen Bragg Brashear City bridge Brig.-Gen C. S. Troops captured Cavalry Chattanooga co-operation command Confederate Corinth crossing defence Department despatch detachment Donaldsonville Dorn enemy enemy's expedition Farragut fire flank fleet force Fort Pillow fortified forward garrison Grand Gulf Grant Grenada gunboats guns Haines Halleck Helena Holly Springs Illinois Illinois Cavalry Indiana Iowa Iuka Jackson Johnston July June land Louisiana Maj.-Gen March McClernand McPherson McPherson's corps Memphis miles Milliken's Bend Mississippi Missouri morning move movement night Orleans Osterhaus Pemberton Port Gibson Port Hudson railroad Raymond reached rear received Red River regiments reinforcements retreat road Rosecrans Second Brigade sent Sherman siege skirmishing Smith Smith's division Steele's Stevenson's surrender Tennessee tion transports Union vessels vicinity Vicksburg Warrenton wounded Yazoo Yazoo River
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Page 203 - Vicksburg, and to surrender the city and garrison under my command, by marching out with my colors and arms, stacking them in front of my present lines. After which you will take possession. Officers to retain their side-arms and personal property, and the rights and property of citizens to be respected.
Page 200 - I tell y{m plainly men are not going to lie here and perish ; if they do love their country, self-preservation is the first law of nature, and hunger will compel a man to do almost anything. You had better heed a warning voice, though it is the voice of a private soldier. This army is now ripe for mutiny unless it can be fed.
Page 244 - Would be very glad of 25,000 infantry; no artillery or cavalry; but please do not send a man if it endangers any place you deem important to hold, or if it forces you to give up or weaken or 'delay the expedition against Chattanooga.
Page 200 - If you can't feed us, you had better surrender us, horrible as the idea is, than suffer this noble army to disgrace themselves by desertion.
Page 58 - Cairo or such other points as may hereafter be designated by the general-in-chief, to the end that, when a sufficient force not required by the operations of General Grant's command shall be raised, an expedition may be organized, under General McClernand's command, against Vicksburg, and to clear the Mississippi River and open navigation to New Orleans.
Page 150 - Our being compelled to leave Jackson makes your plan impracticable. The only mode by which we can unite is by your moving directly to Clinton, and informing me that we may move to that point with about 6,000.
Page 166 - The evacuation of Vicksburg! It meant the loss of the valuable stores and munitions of war collected for its defence; the fall of Port Hudson; the surrender of the Mississippi River, and the severance of the Confederacy.
Page 259 - Hudson to have ensured the fail of that place with your cooperation, or, rather, to have co-operated with you to secure that end. Meeting the enemy, however, as I did, south of Port Gibson, I followed him to the Big Black, and could not afford to retrace my steps. I also learned, and believe the information to be reliable, that Port Hudson is almost entirely evacuated.
Page 42 - Memphis and Corinth. It was clear to my mind that if a successful attack could be made upon Corinth from the west and northwest, the forces there driven back on the Tennessee and cut off, Bolivar and Jackson would easily fall, and then, upon the arrival of the exchanged prisoners of WUT, West Tennessee would soon be in our possession ami communication with General Bragg effected through Middle Tennessee.
Page 200 - I submit to your serious consideration the following note: We as an army have as much confidence in you as a commanding general as we perhaps ought to have. We believe you have displayed as much generalship as any other man could have done under similar circumstances. We give you great credit for the stern patriotism you have evinced in the defense of Vicksburg during a protracted and unparalleled siege.