THE WAR WITH THE SOUTH A HISTORY OF THE LATE REBELLION WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF LEADING STATESMEN AND DISTINGUISHED NAVAL AND MILITARY COMMANDERS, ETC. BY ROBERT TOMES, M.D. CONTINUED FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1864 TO THE END OF THE WAR Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-two, BY ROBERT TOMES, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VÒLUME III. PORTRAIT OF GENERAL U. S. GRANT. VICTORY..... MAP OF PORT HUDSON AND ITS DEFENCES..... CHART OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM THE OHIO TO THE GULF OF MEXICO.. BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE.-GENERAL SICKLES DIVISION COVERING THE RETREAT........... PORTRAITS OF GENERALS J. E. B. STUART, VAN DORN, J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, FORREST, and PORTRAIT OF GENERAL CUSTER..... PORTRAITS OF GENERALS SEDGWICK, TERRY, JOHN G. FOSTER, CROOK, AND MERRITT........ PORTRAITS OF GENERALS BRAGG, LONGSTREET, J. E. JOHNSTON, HOOD, AND KIRBY SMITH.... PORTRAIT OF GENERAL SHERIDAN.. 481 PORTRAIT OF GENERAL STONEMAN... 66 524 PORTRAITS OF GENERALS HOWARD, ROUSSEAU, GRIERSON, SLOCUM, AND JEFFERSON C. DAVIS PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL PORTER.... 585 THE WAR WITH THE SOUTH: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION. CHAPTER I. The Condition of Vicksburg after the Surrender.-Comparatively little Ruins.-Marks of the Bombardment.-The Hospitals.-Persistence of the Defenders of Vicksburg.-Starved out.-Mule Meat.-A Soldier's Bill of Fare.The Efforts made by the Enemy to relieve Vicksburg.-Proofs of Weakness.-Determination of General Pemberton.-Fighting to the "last dog."-Effects throughout Mississippi. - Retreat of Johnston.-General Sherman in Pursuit. —Jackson evacuated.-Sherman occupies Jackson.-Destruction of Railroad Property.-"Nothing goes well in the Southwest."-Mississippi abandoned by Johnston.-Sherman's return to Vicksburg.-Surrender of Port Hudson.-Operations of General Banks in Louisiana.-Operations in the Teche Region.-Capture of the Diana. - Battle of Beasland. -Advance of Banks to Franklin.-Co-operation of the Navy.-The Queen of the West burned. -The Diana blown up.-A Fleet of Transports destroyed.-Fort Butte La Rose captured.-General Grover forms a junction with Banks.--Banks at New Iberia.—At Martinsville.—At Opelousas.—At Alexandria. With a daring mockery of the cruel spirit of war, the people had ornamented their houses with the missiles of destruction. THE condition of the city of Vicks- | which once so greatly adorned the picburg and its defences, when entered turesque Vicksburg, presented a scene 1863. by the victorious army of General of confused ruin. Grant, was such, notwithstanding the tremendous fire to which they had been so long exposed, as to surprise every observer. It was natural to expect a general scene of ruin, yet few of the buildings were demolished, and most of the houses were so little injured as to be easily rendered habitable. The shot and shell which had been poured so continually into the city had, however, left their marks everywhere. The streets were ploughed up, the pavements shattered, and the yards, gardens, and other inclosed spaces, pitted with great holes. The shrubberies and cultivated grounds Nearly every gate in the city," writes a visitor,* "is adorned with unexploded thirteen-inch shells placed atop of each post. The porches and piazzas (nearly every house has one) are also adorned with curious collections of shot and shells that have fallen in the yards." He adds: "It is said that there are some houses in the city that have escaped unscathed; but in my rambles New York Tribune. |