{"id":2265,"date":"2021-08-30T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/?page_id=2265"},"modified":"2024-03-26T18:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T18:11:50","slug":"spring-1863-homefront","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/spring-1863-homefront\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 1863 –Homefront"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vicksburg Campaign<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgement for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo-Pass expedition, and the like could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward, East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement that you were right and I was wrong.\u00a0 —Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, July 13, 1863<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Grant\"<\/a>

Ulysses Grant<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pemberton\"<\/a>

John Pemberton<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nConfederate soldier William Elisha Stoker<\/a> participated in the Vicksburg campaign. He was disgruntled throughout his service, but especially after this turning point in the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Times gets harder with the soldiers Ive got so I just wis this confederacy was toar all to smash and turned bottom [up?]. Is this ware never will close untill the men just quits. –William Elisha Stoker to Elizabeth Stoker, May 22, 1863<\/p>\n