[232] Cullum, Register of Mil. Acad., art., “McPherson.”
[233] War Records, Serial No. 36, pp. 371–467.
[234] Mahan, Gulf and Inland Waters, 110 et seq.
[235] Johnston, Narrative, 152.
[236] War Records, Serial No. 36, pp. 565 et seq.
[237] War Records, Serial No. 36, p. 32.
[238] Johnston, Narrative, 153.
[239] Admiral Porter’s fleet kept up a continuous bombardment for forty days. Seven thousand mortar shells and forty-five hundred shells from the gunboats were discharged at the city. As Grant drew his lines closer, his cannonade was kept up day and night. The people of Vicksburg had taken shelter in caves dug in the clay hills on which the city stands. In these caves families lived day and night, and children were born. Famine attacked the city, and mule-meat made a savory dish. Grant mined under some of the Confederate works, and one of them, Fort Hill Bastion, was blown up on June 25th with terrible effect.—Harper’s Encyclopædia of United States History.
[240] War Records, Serial No. 37, pp. 146–424.
[241] War Records, Serial No. 41, pp. 41–181 (Port Hudson).