Indiana at Vicksburg

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W. B. Burford, contractor for state printing and binding, 1911 - Indiana - 476 pages
 

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Page 167 - I make this proposition to save the further effusion of blood, which must otherwise be shed to a frightful extent, feeling myself fully able to maintain my position for a yet indefinite period.
Page 168 - I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this date, proposing terms of capitulation for this garrison and post. In the main your terms are accepted; but, in justice both to the honor and spirit of my troops, manifested in the defence of Vicksburg, I have to submit the following amendments, which, if acceded to by you, will perfect the agreement between us.
Page 162 - The assault of this day proved the quality of the soldiers of this army. Without entire success, and with a heavy loss, there was no murmuring or complaining, no falling back, nor other evidence of demoralization.
Page 161 - Regiment Iowa Volunteers, and some eleven privates of the same regiment. Of these, none returned except the sergeant and possibly one man. The work entered by him, from its position, could give us no practical advantage, unless others to the right and left of it were carried and held at the same time.
Page 144 - Coldwater and Tallahatchie with some lighter gunboats and a few troops, and destroy the enemy's transports in that stream and some gunboats which I knew he was building. The navigation, however, proved so much better than had been expected, that I thought for a time of the possibility of making this the route for obtaining...
Page 406 - That the sum of one thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the funds of the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be drawn and used by said commission to pay the...
Page 171 - I can make no stipulation with regard to the treatment of citizens and their private property.
Page 165 - ... killed and wounded, and among the killed Generals Tracy, Tilghman, and Green, and hundreds and perhaps thousands of stragglers, who can never be collected and reorganized. Arms and munitions of war for an army of sixty thousand...
Page 447 - It is a striking feature, so far as my observation goes, of the present volunteer army of the United States, that there is nothing which men are called upon to do, mechanical or professional, that accomplished adepts cannot be found for the duty required in almost every regiment.
Page 168 - ... and cavalry officers one horse each. The rank and file will be allowed all their clothing, but no other property.

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