. Bill Nye's history of the United States. d by the foe. General Grant moved again on Vicksburg, andon May i, defeated Pemberton at Fort also prevented a junction between Joseph and Pemberton, and drove the latter intoVicksburg, securing the stopper so tightly thatafter forty-seven days the garrison surrendered,July 4. This fight cost the Confederates thirty-seven thousand prisoners, ten thousand killed andwounded, and immense quantities of stores. Itwas a warm time in Vicksburg^ • a curious manwho stuck his hat out for twenty seconds abovethe ramparts found fifteen bullet
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. d by the foe. General Grant moved again on Vicksburg, andon May i, defeated Pemberton at Fort also prevented a junction between Joseph and Pemberton, and drove the latter intoVicksburg, securing the stopper so tightly thatafter forty-seven days the garrison surrendered,July 4. This fight cost the Confederates thirty-seven thousand prisoners, ten thousand killed andwounded, and immense quantities of stores. Itwas a warm time in Vicksburg^ • a curious manwho stuck his hat out for twenty seconds abovethe ramparts found fifteen bullet-holes in itwhen he took it down, and when he wore itto church he attracted more attention than thecollection. The North now began to sit up and take notice. 2/6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Morning papers began to sell once more, andGrant was the name on every tongue. The Mississippi was open to the Gulf, and theConfederacy was practically surrounded. Rosecrans would have moved on the enemy,but learned that the foe had several head of. ATTRACTED MORE ATTENTION THAN THE COLLECTION. cavalry more than he did, also a team of this time John Morgan made a raid into surrounded Cincinnati, but did not take it, ashe was not keeping house at the time and hatedto pay storage on it. He got to Parkersburg,West Virginia, and was captured there withalmost his entire force. STILL MORE FRATERNAL BLOODSHED. 277 On September 19 and 20 occurred the battle ofChickamauga. Longstreet rushed into a breachin the Union line and swept it with a great bigbesom of wrath with which he had wisely pro-vided himself on starting out. Rosecrans feltmortified when he came to himself and found thathis horse had been so unmanageable that he hadcarried him ten miles from the carnage. But the left, under Thomas, held fast its posi-tion, and no doubt saved the little band of sixtythousand men which Rosecrans commanded at thetime. His army now found itself shut up in intrench-ments, with Bragg
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