A Full and Detailed History of the Siege of Vicksburg (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Full and Detailed History of the Siege of Vicksburg Soon after my arrival from Vicksburg, where I was taken prisoner, I contributed two articles to the Advertiser and Register, of Mobile, Alabama, under the signature of "One of the Garrison." One of these articles was an account of the Battle of Baker´s Creek and Big Black, and the other a condensed account of the Siege of Vicksburg. The statements made in these two articles were from my own personal observation, and information received from sources of undoubted veracity. The appearance of my two articles became the theme of Criticisms by the press. Some of which were favorable, but others bitterly denounced the author as having acted through a feeling of prejudice against General Pemberton. Aware, as I am, tint none in the Confederacy acted in a more cordial manner towards that General´s control of the Army of Vicksburg than I did, I did not notice the many denunciatory remarks made, at the time, but compiled the work presented for the purpose of showing, that instead of being as censorious as the case allowed, I had kept silent in many things, which, had they been made public, would have raised a clamor against General Pemberton of a far more violent nature than what was hurled at him. The author claims the right of knowing as much about the siege of Vicksburg as any one residing in that town, from the fact that he was at that point, in Company A, Withers Light Artillery, as a private, when the first gun was fired in its defense, and served as such until the raising of the first siege. In September, 1862; he was discharged from the army on account of sickness, and being unable to return to his home, (New Orleans) obtained a position in the office of the Vicksburg Whig, where he remained until its destruction by lire in the early part of May, 1863, and was taken prisoner and paroled after the surrender. All the statements made in this work were either the result of the Author´s observation, or obtained from parties whose standing in the Army warrants the Author in saying that the statements are beyond dispute, and, did not military law prevent it, the names of many prominent officers could be called in corroboration of all that is written in this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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