After forty-seven days of intense siege, Vicksburg surrenders to Grant's Army of the Tennessee

Confederate General John Clifford Pemberton had contacted Union General Ulysses Grant the day before to discuss terms.  Grant had demanded "unconditional surrender" first but relented largely due to the almost 30,000 hungry prisoners that would result.  Parole was agreed and in the morning C.S.A. troops, after forty-seven days of siege, began stacking weapons. The Mississippi was now open to Union river traffic all the way to New Orleans.  (By John Osborne) 
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Vicksburg, Mississippi (Hayward)

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John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America… (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 606.
Vicksburg, Mi., Warren co. Situated on the E. bank of the Mississippi. 50 miles N. N. E. from Natchez, and about 45 W. from Jackson, the capital of the state, with which it is connected by a railroad. The town is on a high bluff, about 200 feet above the river. The scenery is very fine from the bluffs in this neighborhood. The Walnut Hills, a little above Vicksburg, rise boldly, with alternate swells and gullies, to the height of nearly 500 feet, and form one of the most striking views met with by the traveler on the Lower Mississippi.
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