ORD'S HEADQUARTERS, July 3, 1863.
General GRANT:
In reply to your
intimation that if General Pemberton wished an interview he would show a white
flag at some specified point, General Bowen stated to General [A. J.] Smith
that he knew General Pemberton would be glad to meet General Grant; and General
Bowen, on the return of General Smith from you, appointed the point where the
Jackson and Vicksburg road crosses the rebel trenches as the place where the
white flag would be raised at 3 p.m. This point is in front of General McPherson's.
The rebel time is forty eight minutes faster than mine. I will send you my
time.
E. O. C. ORD.
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. 460
