. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ted on the same da\ success compelled the evacuation ofGrand Gulf by the Confederates. Grant nowboldly threw his army between Johnstonsforces at Jackson and Pembertons army,intending to hold the former in check, anddrive the latter within the defences of Vicks-burg. On the fourteenth of May he attackedJohnston at Jackson, the capital of Missis-sippi, and forced him to retreat northwardtowards Canton. Then turning upon Pem-berton he attacked him at Cham
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ted on the same da\ success compelled the evacuation ofGrand Gulf by the Confederates. Grant nowboldly threw his army between Johnstonsforces at Jackson and Pembertons army,intending to hold the former in check, anddrive the latter within the defences of Vicks-burg. On the fourteenth of May he attackedJohnston at Jackson, the capital of Missis-sippi, and forced him to retreat northwardtowards Canton. Then turning upon Pem-berton he attacked him at Champion Hills,or Bakers Creek, on the sixteenth, and 734 THE CIVIL WAR. inflicted a severe defeat upon him. Pem-berton withdrew towards the Big BlackRiver, and the next day met a seconddefeat there. He now retreated within thedefences of Vicksburg, which place waspromptly invested by Grants army., On the nineteenth of May Grant attemptedto carry the Confederate position by assault,but was repulsed with heavy loss. Theassault was repeated with a like result onthe twenty-second. There remained thennothincf but a regular siesfe. This was. CD HEADQUAKTEKS NEAR VICKSBURC pressed with vigor, and the city was sub-jected to a terrible bombardment, whichcaused great suffering to the people. Whilethe siege was carried on Johnstons armywas held back, and prevented from under-taking any movement for the relief of Vicks-burg. At length, reduced to despair by thesteady approach of the Union trenches, Pem-berton surrendered the city and his army toGeneral Grant on the fourth of July. Bythis surrender thirty thousand prisoners, twohundred and fifty cannon, and sixty thousand stand of arms, together with a large qu&tt-tity of military stores, fell into the hands olthe Union forces. It was justly esteemecithe greatest victory of the war. While the siege of Vicksburg was in pro-gress, General Banks ascended the Mis-sissippi from New Orleans and laid siege toPort Hudson. Upon hearing of the fa
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