Armies of Deliverance by Elizabeth R. Varon

Author:Elizabeth R. Varon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

Fall of the Rebel Gibraltar. “The Federal Army, Under General Grant, Taking Formal Possession of Vicksburg, July 4th, 1863, After the Surrender.” Grant paroled the surrendered Confederates, hoping to promote their repentance and acquiescence in Union victory. (Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Magazine)

Simons, for his part, was relieved by the lenience of Grant’s terms but still defiant. “I felt proud when I thaught of the time & means that it had cost them with all their facilities to take the place & that they only got possession of it then on account of our having been starved out,” he wrote on July 4. Simons was eager to get back into the fray and looked forward to “some future day when . . . things will work better for us.” Union soldiers, by contrast, attributed their victory not to their overwhelming numbers and resources but to the “untiring energy, skill and forecast of our gallant leader, U. S. Grant, aided by the willing and brave hearts about him,” as Oldroyd put it. He concluded: “I trust the wicked rebellion will not fail soon to near its end.”36

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