. Abraham Lincoln; a history . narmy more than three thousand men with no com-pensating advantages whatever. Grant gave up allthought of taking the place by storm, and resolvedupon a regular siege. In the peculiarities of to-pography to which we have already referred, this 1 How and why the general ment, it only asked what in one assault failed it would be useless case Major-General Grant had now to explain. The Thirteenth specifically and peremptorily or- Army Corps, acknowledging? the dered, namely, simultaneous and goodintentionsof all, would scorn persistent attack all along our indulgence
. Abraham Lincoln; a history . narmy more than three thousand men with no com-pensating advantages whatever. Grant gave up allthought of taking the place by storm, and resolvedupon a regular siege. In the peculiarities of to-pography to which we have already referred, this 1 How and why the general ment, it only asked what in one assault failed it would be useless case Major-General Grant had now to explain. The Thirteenth specifically and peremptorily or- Army Corps, acknowledging? the dered, namely, simultaneous and goodintentionsof all, would scorn persistent attack all along our indulgence in weak regrets and lines, until the enemys outer idle criminations. According works should be carried, and justice to all, it would only de- what in the other, by massing a fend itself. If, while the enemy strong force in time upon a weak- was massing to crush it, assist- ened point, would have probably ance was asked for by a diversion insured success. — W. R. Vol. at other points, or by reenforce- XXIV., Part I., p. GENERAL E. KIRBY SMITH. YICKSBUEG 289 siege differs from any other iu history. Vicksburg chap. , properly speaking, not a fortress, but an in-trenched camp stretching for miles along theheights of the Mississippi and defended by innu-merable gullies and ravines almost impassable totroops. Grants forces at the beginning were al-together insufficient for the complete investment ofsuch a camp; at the outset of the campaign hisforces numbered about 43,000, though at the closehis army had been increased to 75,000 men. In hisofficial report Pemberton says that when he movedinto the defenses he had 28,000 effectives. Theparole lists after the suiTender accounted for 29,491men, which included the non-effectives. Not beingable to garnish the entire semicircle of investmentsvith troops Grant contented himseK, at the begin-ning, with holding and strongly occupying the north-ern half of it; Shermans corps holding the bank ofthe Mississippi and the heights to th
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