Essentials of United States history . ,counting those engaged in protect-ing his conmiunications. Grant dugtwelve miles of trenches. His artil-lery included about two hundred andtwenty guns, most of them fieldpieces. The fort was defended byone hundred and seventy-two guns,nearly fifty of them large siege guns. General G. II. Thomas, h r. a ^ ^ c • Imally, aiter twelve days or mces- sant bombardment, the Confederate garrison, cut off from relief and reduced to one biscuit and a mouthful of bacon a day, surrendered on the 4th of July, 1863. General Sherman spoke of this as gne of the grea
Essentials of United States history . ,counting those engaged in protect-ing his conmiunications. Grant dugtwelve miles of trenches. His artil-lery included about two hundred andtwenty guns, most of them fieldpieces. The fort was defended byone hundred and seventy-two guns,nearly fifty of them large siege guns. General G. II. Thomas, h r. a ^ ^ c • Imally, aiter twelve days or mces- sant bombardment, the Confederate garrison, cut off from relief and reduced to one biscuit and a mouthful of bacon a day, surrendered on the 4th of July, 1863. General Sherman spoke of this as gne of the greatest. LINCOLNS FIRST ADMINISTRATION (1861-1865) 299
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