. Field, fort and fleet; being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late civil war . re at last wearing out. Grant never exhibited better generalship and greater pluck. Por-ter never showed his lieet to better advantage than he did there-Then let history, no matter by whom written, add that the Confed-erates had done all that brave men could do. On the third of July, having given up all hopes of outside aid,and feeling that further defense was but useless slaughter, Pember-ton raised the white flag of surrender, and next day Vicksburg wasin possession
. Field, fort and fleet; being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late civil war . re at last wearing out. Grant never exhibited better generalship and greater pluck. Por-ter never showed his lieet to better advantage than he did there-Then let history, no matter by whom written, add that the Confed-erates had done all that brave men could do. On the third of July, having given up all hopes of outside aid,and feeling that further defense was but useless slaughter, Pember-ton raised the white flag of surrender, and next day Vicksburg wasin possession of those who had fought so long and well to win has been charged that Pemberton was a man of great personalvanity. If so, he was also a good fighter. It has been changed thathe disobeyed the orders of Johnston to evacuate Vicksburg. Ifso, where are the charges and the courts-martial ? It has been writ-ten that he defended Vicksburg by the positive order of PresidentDavis. If true, the President had the right to make the order, andhe must have felt tliat Pemberton made the best possible fightunder the f |e Capture of |]ort Hudson.
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