. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. YOU WEEE RlGIIT AND I WAS WRONG. 339. 340 Monument in Memory of the Surrender. C1863- Vicksburg is ours! Hurrah!Treachery cowers!Hurrah!Down reels the rebel rag! Up shoots the starry flag! ***** Vicksburg is oursHurrah ! Arch the green bowers!Hurrah!Arch oer the hero, whoNearer and nearer drew,Letting wise patience sway,Till, from his brave delay,Swift as the lightnings ray,Bounded he to the fray, Full on his fated prey; ***** r Till the dread work was done,Till the grand wreath was is ours!Hurrah ! Ere
. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. YOU WEEE RlGIIT AND I WAS WRONG. 339. 340 Monument in Memory of the Surrender. C1863- Vicksburg is ours! Hurrah!Treachery cowers!Hurrah!Down reels the rebel rag! Up shoots the starry flag! ***** Vicksburg is oursHurrah ! Arch the green bowers!Hurrah!Arch oer the hero, whoNearer and nearer drew,Letting wise patience sway,Till, from his brave delay,Swift as the lightnings ray,Bounded he to the fray, Full on his fated prey; ***** r Till the dread work was done,Till the grand wreath was is ours!Hurrah ! Ere many months, curiosity-seekers had carried awayevery fragment of the trunk and branches of the live oakoverspreading the site of Grant and Pembertons historicinterview, and had even removed the roots for ten feet be-low the surface. An obelisk of white marble, twelve feethigh, and surmounted by a globe, was afterward reared onthe spot. It bore the inscription :— To the memory of the surrender of Vicksburg by Lieutenaut-G-eneralJ. C. Pemberton, to Major-General U. S. Grant, United States Army, on thefourth of
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