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On the twenty-ninth of December its attempt to carry the Chickasaw Bluffs, just north of Vicksburg, was completely frustrated by Pemberton; for Sherman could not deploy into line on the few causeways that stood above the flooded ground. On the eleventh of January this first campaign along the Mississippi was ended by the capture of Arkansas Post. McClernand was the senior there.
Generals Grant, McPherson, and I, met in the large hotel facing the State-House, where the former explained to us that he had intercepted dispatches from Pemberton to Johnston, which made it important for us to work smart to prevent a junction of their respective forces.
"I will do my best, but I do not feel that I could try to kill the poor blacks," answered Ellen. "They deserve to be killed," exclaimed Miss Pemberton, "for daring to rebel against their masters." She spoke as a planter's daughter.
Pemberton tried to rally him on the score of his old hypochondriacal tendencies, or that Evelyn quietly remarked: "I am sure, papa, I never saw you looking better! It is a pity to interrupt dear Miriam now in the full tide of her studies. I am sure that I am willing to devote every moment of my time to you if needful;" or that Mrs.
He had created for himself the gravest responsibilities and must at least abide by what he had done. "Taken him away from you?" Pemberton exclaimed indignantly. "Do it do it for pity's sake; that's just what I want. I can't stand this and such scenes. They're awful frauds poor dears!"
On July 1st Pemberton, seeing no hope of outside relief, addressed the following letter to each of his four division commanders: "Unless the siege of Vicksburg is raised, or supplies are thrown in, it will become necessary very shortly to evacuate the place. I see no prospect of the former, and there are many great, if not insuperable obstacles in the way of the latter.
Moreen and Ulick were in the Piazza, looking out for something, strolling drearily, in mackintoshes, under the arcades; but still, in spite of mackintoshes, unmistakeable men of the world. Paula and Amy were in bed it might have been thought they were staying there to keep warm. Pemberton looked askance at the boy at his side, to see to what extent he was conscious of these dark omens.
He was not even confused or embarrassed, whereas the young man in his service was more so than there was any reason for. Neither was he surprised at least any more than a gentleman had to be who freely confessed himself a little shocked though not perhaps strictly at Pemberton. "We must go into this, mustn't we, dear?" he said to his wife.
We estimated Pemberton's whole force in Vicksburg at thirty thousand men, and it was well known that the rebel General Joseph E. Johnston was engaged in collecting another strong force near the Big Black, with the intention to attack our rear, and thus to afford Pemberton an opportunity to escape with his men.
I lay bound, for a while, in a cataleptic reverie, and then I passed away once more into darkness and syncope. It was evening when I revived Dr. Pemberton was sitting beside me, holding my pulse Mrs. Austin and Mabel were at the bedside. This was, at last, the end I craved; of all, I hoped. "The wine, Mrs. Austin," the doctor said, in low accents. "Quick! one spoonful instantly.
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