States, 'My forces are now investing Vicksburg. Sherman's forces [run?] from the Miss. River above the city two miles east. McPherson is to his left and McClernand to the left of McPherson. If you can run down and throw shell in just back of the lower part of the city it would aid us and demoralize an already badly beaten enemy?Ǫ' Title: Letter from U. S. Grant, rear of Vicksburg, to [David D.] Porter, May 19, 1863 . 19 May 1863. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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