A despatch came that Vicksburg has been taken and that
Pemberton has made an unconditional surrender to General Grant. The terms
include the surrender of his army of twenty-seven thousand men, one hundred
siege guns, one hundred and twenty-eight field guns, and eighty thousand small
arms.1 Early in the day the rebels drove some of our skirmishers in,
but in the afternoon we commenced to shell them and they withdrew. They
surrendered soon after. Our company went out on picket this evening. This has
been a hard Fourth of July; I don't want to see another such a Fourth.
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1 There were no provisions to give up and General
Grant Issued Government rations to all the prisoners taken. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 125
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