Thursday, February 24, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Rear Admiral David D. Porter, July 3, 1863

NEAR VICKSBURG, July 3, 1863.
Admiral PORTER:

The enemy have asked armistice to arrange terms of capitulation. Will you please cease firing until notified, or hear our batteries open? I shall fire a national salute into the city at daylight if they do not surrender.

U. S. GRANT.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 24, Part 3 (Serial No. 38), p. 459

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