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Updated: June 18, 2025
So one day, when a delegation came to see me, and had spent half an hour trying to show me the fatal mistake you had made in paroling Pemberton's army, and insisting that the rebels would violate their paroles and in less than a month confront you again in the ranks and have to be whipped all over again, I thought I could get rid of them best by telling them a story about Sykes's dog.
"Is it true about the surrender?" "Yes; we have had no official notice, but they are paroling out at the lines now, and the men in Vicksburg will never forgive Pemberton. An old granny! A child would have known better than to shut men up in this cursed trap to starve to death like useless vermin."
Generals Gibbon, Griffin and Merritt were designated by me to carry into effect the paroling of Lee's troops before they should start for their homes General Lee leaving Generals Longstreet, Gordon and Pendleton for them to confer with in order to facilitate this work.
Under such circumstances my prisoners would prove a decided embarrassment, so I abandoned further attempts to get them together not even paroling them, which I thought might have been done with but little risk.
Under such circumstances my prisoners would prove a decided embarrassment, so I abandoned further attempts to get them together not even paroling them, which I thought might have been done with but little risk.
The first dispatch I received from the government after the fall of Vicksburg was in these words: "I fear your paroling the prisoners at Vicksburg, without actual delivery to a proper agent as required by the seventh article of the cartel, may be construed into an absolute release, and that the men will immediately be placed in the ranks of the enemy. Such has been the case elsewhere.
Only means of telegraphing is to American Consul at Hong Kong. Shall communicate with him. The second despatch: "Cavite, May 4th. I have taken possession of naval station at Cavite on Philippine Islands. Have destroyed the fortifications at bay entrance, paroling garrison. I control bay completely and can take city at any time. The squadron is in excellent health and spirits.
"I make a second postscript, to say that there is some hope, I am happy to learn, that General Shields may survive his wounds. One of the principal motives for paroling the prisoners of war is to diminish the resistance of other garrisons in our march.
So, after paroling the catch of the night before, he told John Underwood to get busy gathering information and establishing contacts, and he took his six men back to Culpepper, reporting his activities to Stuart and claiming that under his existing orders he had not felt justified in staying away from the army longer.
Generals Gibbon, Griffin and Merritt were designated by me to carry into effect the paroling of Lee's troops before they should start for their homes General Lee leaving Generals Longstreet, Gordon and Pendleton for them to confer with in order to facilitate this work.
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