Life And Public Services of Ulysses S Grant From His Birth to the Present Time
Life And Public Services of Ulysses S Grant From His Birth to the Present Time
Charles a From Old Catalog Phelps
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Arms and munitions of war for sixty thou- sand men, railroad-cars, locomotives, steamboats, were destroyed in large numbers. Thirty-one thousand and six hundred of the above prisoners w^ere surrendered with Vicksburg, a hundred and seventy-two cannon, and thirty-five thousand rifles and muskets. Grant had lost 943 killed, 7, 095 wounded, 537 miss- ing. Half the wounded in a few weeks recovered, and were on duty. He announced this great victory to the government in the following terms : " The en...emy surrendered this morning. The only terms allowed is their parole as prisoners of war. This I regard as a great advantage to us at this moment. It saves, proba- bly, several days in the capture, and leaves troops and * When Moscow was occupied by the French, a moniiment was erected \n Coblentz with this inscription : " In honor of tlie memorable campaign against the Russians in 1812. "' Two years after, Col. Mardeuke, the Rus- sian commander at Coblentz, left the monument untouched, but caused the following words to be cut under the inscription : " Seen and approved by the Russian commander of Coblentz, 1814.
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