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Title: Life and public services of General Ulysses S. Grant, from his boyhood to the present time. And a biographical sketch of Hon. Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Phelps, Charles A
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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llery was opened ; and officers were sent outto reconnoitre the works. Sherman, who had advanced in another directionfrom McPherson, also found intrenchments to the leftas far as could be seen, from which a sharp artillery-firewas maintained. Grant ordered an examination to theextreme right, the flanks of these intrenchments. Thosesent not returning as soon as he desired, he startedhimself, followed only by his staff, and rode until hefound that the enemy had evacuated the town. Theroute was open, and he rode on. His son, a boy ofthirteen, who was with him as they neared the town,started his horse on a gallop, and was the first to enterthe streets. But McPherson also learned that the rebels hadevacuated the works, and marched inside of them onone flank, while Sherman marched in on the other,meeting midway amid prolonged shouts of victory. By three oclock, the national ensign, raised by theFifty-ninth Indiana, was waving from the dome of thecapitol. \i\\ \kMi^^y-^\v\fi «/// ihh in I U
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Battle at Jackson. 135 The leading secessionists of the place had left withthe rebel army, including the State Treasurer with thefunds, and Gov. Pettus with all the most valuahle Statepapers except the copies of his proclamation. But his-tory will preserve this. Before four oclock. Grant Avas issuing orders to hiscorps commanders in the governors room at the capitol.Sherman was ordered to occupy the rifle-pits, anddestroy the railroads, bridges, and telegraphs in alldirections, except towards Vicksburg. Factories andarsenals were burned. A public house called the Confederate Hotel was fired by some of the sol-diers before the guard could take possession of the city.On investigation, it appeared that some of the Uniontroops had been transported through Jackson, somemouths before, as prisoners on cattle-cars, which werestopped in front of this hotel. The captives, who hadsuffered long from thirst, asked for a little water, butwere refused with brutal and insulting taunts by thosein the

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