Chapter 9:
- Preparations for the siege -- Grant orders troops from Memphis -- Halleck sends Reenforcements from the East and West -- lack of siege material -- scarcity of engineer officers -- first ground broken 23d of May -- engineer operations -- ingenuity of officers and men -- enemy's defence -- sorties -- Wood's approach -- loss of the Cincinnati -- Tuttle's approach -- Blair's approach -- Ransom's approach -- Logan's approach -- A. J. Smith's approach -- Carr's approach -- Hovey's approach -- Lauman's approach -- Herron's approach -- menacing attitude of Johnston -- correspondence with Banks -- Osterhaus sent to the Big Black -- Blair sent to the Yazoo -- Mower and Kimball sent to Mechanicsburg -- attack on Milliken's bend -- arrival of Herron and Parke -- completion of investment -- fortification of Haine's bluff -- corps of observation -- line of countervallation -- Pemberton prepares for escape -- McClernand relieved -- condition of garrison -- sufferings of inhabitants -- mine of June 25th -- hardships of national troops -- persistency of Grant -- final assault fixed for July 6th -- Pemberton proposes surrender -- terms of capitulation -- interview between commanders -- surrender of Vicksburg -- treatment of prisoners -- Pemberton's headquarters -- garrison paroled and marched out of Vicksburg -- fall of Port Hudson -- opening of Mississippi river -- Sherman sent against Johnston -- Johnston retreats to Jackson -- Sherman besieges Jackson -- Johnston evacuates -- destruction of railroads -- return of Sherman -- results of entire campaign -- congratulations of the President and general-in-chief -- Grant made major-general in regular army -- joy of the country -- Dismay of the rebels.
The assaults on Vicksburg having failed, Grant at once set about his preparations for a siege. The three corps retained the same relative positions they already occupied, Sherman having the right, McPherson the centre, and McClernand the left of the line; but Lauman's division, arriving on the 24th of May, was put on the left of McClernand, where it guarded
