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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Vicksburg. On the 19th,just twenty days after the movement began,the city was completely invested and an assaulthad been made. Five distinct battles—besidescontinuous skirmishing—had been fought andwon by the Union forces; the capital of the Statehad fallen, and its arsenals, military manufac-tories, and everything useful for military pur-poses, hadl)een destroyed ; an average of aboutone hundred and eighty miles had been march-ed by the troops engaged ; but five daysrationshad been issued, and no forage; over 6000prisoners had been captured, and as manymore of theenemyhad been killed or wounded;twenty-seven heavy cannon and sixty-onefield-iiieces had fallen into our hands; and fourhundred miles of the river, from Vicksburg toPort Hudson, had become ours. The Unionforce that had crossed the Mississipjji riverup to this time was less than forty-three thou-sand men. One division of these, Blairs,only arrived in time to take part in the battleof Champions Hill, but was not engaged f\
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Irr/m General n.-ilr-iui Military Mistf.ry of Uly.s.-s S. f.r.iiit ■ : I). A;«;ilcton & Co., N. V.:At llic rcqucit of tin: lilitor of I 111; CliNlUKY MAijAZINli. i THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. 757 there, and one brigade, Ransoms, of Mc- Johnston was receiving reenforcements fromPhersons corps reached the field after the Bragg, who was confronting Rosecrans in Ten-battle. The enemy had at Vicksburg, Grand nessee. Vicksburg was so important to theGulf, Jackson, and on the roads between these enemy that I believed he would make the mostplaces, quite sixty thousand men. They were strenuous eftbrts to raise the siege, even at thein their own country, where no rear-guards risk of losing ground elsewhere,were necessary. The country was admirable My lino was more than fifteen miles long,for defense, but difficult to conduct an often- extending from Hainess Bluff to Vicksburg,sive campaign in. All their troops had to thence to Warrenton. The line of the enemybe met. We were fortunate, to say

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