Osborn Shannon
CHAPTER VII.
The Siege of Vicksburg—The Assault—Logan's Headquarters—The "Bull-Pen"—"Boyce's Battery"—Scouting—The Mine—The Surrender— Phelp's Appropriates General Buckner's Capitulation Papers— Significance of the Victory—Credit Due to Grant.
"How we marched together, sound or sick,
Sank in the trench o'er the heavy spade—
How we charged on the guns, at double-quick,
Kept rank for Death to choose and pick—
And lay on the bed no fair hands made."