The evacuation of Vicksburg! It meant the loss of the valuable stores and munitions of war collected for its defence; the fall of Port Hudson; the surrender of the Mississippi River, and the severance of the Confederacy. General Johnston - Page 189by Robert Morton Hughes - 1893 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
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...anything else. Pemberton sided with Davis and reflected that an evacuation would have dire consequences: "It meant the loss of the valuable stores and munitions...Mississippi River, and the severance of the Confederacy," he wrote. "These were mighty interests, which, had I deemed the evacuation practicable in the sense... | |
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