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When Grant marched into Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, there were more than 30,000 Confederate troops in Virginsburg and more than 40,000 in Jackson, and the two armies combined with more than 80,000 people, and they had the advantage of the inside line, and the Northern Army under Grant's command had no advantage in strength, so he decided to deal with Jackson's enemies first. The Confederate defenders in Fort Vikings knew "defending the city" and watched grant pounce on Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
The commander of jackson was the main force of the Confederate Army on the Western Front, and the commander was General Joseph Johnston, who had previously survived the Battle of the Seven Pines in the Eastern Front; this General Johnston, who had been ranked fourth among the Confederate Generals, was now ranked third~ because another General Johnston of the Confederate Army, who was not related to him, had died.
Joseph Johnston, although known as a famous general, actually knew how to guard tightly; after he had survived a shot in the stomach during the Battle of Seven Pines, he would not attack after returning to his command post, and his troops were loose and scattered like a few points, and grant's army of the Northern Army rushed over and fought once and again, and he did not dare to call the Vikingsburg defenders to attack on both sides, resulting in five defeats, directly throwing Jackson, the capital of Mississippi and the strategic place, to Grant.
Grant drove out Johnston, relieved of his worries, and could concentrate on dealing with the Confederates in The Virginsburg; he himself led the army first, and gave the task of the palace to Sherman, who did a good job of doing a good job - he directly set a fire, burned Jackson to ruins, and Jackson City became the first American city in the American Civil War to be "lit" by Sherman.
Sherman lit a fire on the front line, and his brother-in-law lit another fire in the rear; Sherman's three brothers-in-law were all generals, and it really wasn't Sherman, because Sherman's father-in-law had been the federal government's minister of war and civil war; Sherman's three brothers-in-law, the "boss" of the three Ewing brothers, Hugh Ewing, who had donated the war horse he had obtained from raiding Jefferson Davis's house to General Grant, he immediately went to Sherman: his brother-in-law, and also seized another "incriminating evidence."
Sherman is nominally his brother-in-law, but in fact his eldest brother, because the elder Ewing is Sherman's adoptive father. Sherman took a look at them, and they were all private letters from Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States: Well, leave them here; I didn't expect that his brother-in-law had left a few letters and sent them directly home; when letters came from the front, the newspapers in the North were published, so someone was unlucky ~ The unlucky person was Pierce, who had already left the presidency, and he scolded the Northern Federation to which he belonged in a letter to his old friend, Jefferson Davis, which was a typical "Northern traitor", so the Northern Federation called out to everyone in Pierce for a while.
Grant ran away from Johnston, turned back to march into Virginsburg, fought two battles along the way, also won, and there were casualties; the youngest of the wounded soldiers of the Northern Army in the second battle was an 11-year-old child, it was Grant's eldest son Fred; originally Julia had taken the child home, but Fred had to follow the team, Grant was busy on all fours, and did not care about him at all, so he simply gave him a war horse and let him walk with the Team of the Northern Army; the battle began. The bear boy also charged along: "Rush, defeat the Yankees, take Fort Vikings!" But the bullets on the battlefield never had long eyes, and they were the same for everyone; a bullet from the Confederate Army flew over and scratched the skin on Fred's thigh, and the bear child began to shout again: "I was shot, I am dying;" A lieutenant of the Northern Army next to him came to take a look and told the bear child of General Grant's family: Move your toes, see if you can move, you will not die.
The Southern defenders of Vikingsburg now have the Army of the Northern Army behind them, and the Navy of the Northern Army in front of them, and the reinforcements have long since lost track of which "sky", and it is said that the Southern Army guarding Vikingsburg only has one surrender move, but the defenders are not afraid at all. The confederate general in charge of commanding the garrison was General Pemberton, a northerner from Pennsylvania, whose two brothers had served in the Confederate Army but had joined the Confederate Army himself; he had been acquainted with Grant in the Mexican-American War, and in order to "reunite again", he had dug trenches early and prepared to "welcome" Grant's arrival.
Grant attacked twice in a row, and the troops attacked by the Confederate Army suffered heavy casualties and were bleeding; Grant saw that the casualty rate was too large, so he simply calculated, did not attack, and besieged the city; he surrounded the Vikingsburg regiment, put all kinds of artillery in place, and fired constantly into the city from warships and land every day. As a result, Virginsburg became the most heavily shelled city in The history of the United States, and the residents of the city had to dig bomb shelters everywhere, live in air raid shelters, and could only come out during the interval between the shelling of the North Army. The stakes were high for the Victory or Loss of The Vikingsburg, and the Confederate government urgently discussed how to rescue it, and Johnston was unable to break Grant's siege, but had to ask Jefferson Davis to decide.
At this time, the eastern battlefield just stopped, the main force of the Northern Army, the Potomac Army, was repeatedly defeated, and in the Swamp Battle, it was almost impossible to take the initiative to launch an attack, so the main force of the Southern Army in the east could be mobile, and at the military meeting, the deputy commander of the Eastern Army, General Longstreet, proposed a proposal similar to "encircling Wei and saving Zhao" ~ the elite troops of the eastern region of the Southern Army invaded Tennessee and led Grant to break the siege; General Robert E. Lee believed that this might not be able to solve the siege of Virginsburg. Because there were enemy Army of Queensland and other units in the western battlefield, his proposal was to invade Pennsylvania in the north, attract the Potomac Corps of the enemy Northern Army to come to a decisive battle, or take baltimore, Philadelphia and other major cities to achieve the strategic goal of forcing Lincoln to negotiate peace. Jefferson Davis adopted Robert E. Lee's strategy, and Robert E. Lee almost came out of the nest and led more than 90,000 elite troops of the Confederate Army to invade Pennsylvania again.
The Potomac Corps of the Northern Army, aware of the Confederate action, followed suit, but did not dare to move forward, allowing Robert E. Lee to cross the river calmly. At the critical moment, Lincoln was on the verge of battle, appointing the junior General Med as the commander of the Potomac Regiment, and after leaving behind the troops to protect Washington, D.C., General Meade led more than 100,000 people to pennsylvania to meet General Robert E. Lee.
The Northern and Southern armies engaged in an encounter in Pennsylvania, the most evenly matched battle between Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army, which was a winning division and had high morale; the Northern Army was unstable and demoralized; Robert E. E. lee decided to take the initiative to attack and annihilate the main force of the Northern Army in the eastern region, the Army of potomac.
At the same time, the situation in The city of Virginsburg was getting worse and worse, the food supply was getting smaller and smaller, after eating the donkey's head and eating the donkey's ear, eating the donkey's ear and then the donkey's ass, until finally the Southern defenders and residents in the city could only eat rats; by June 28 of that year, even the rats had been eaten, and a note signed "Many officers and soldiers" from the officers and men of the Confederate Army who was guarding the city was quietly stuffed into The door of Pemberton's room; Pemberton opened it and looked at it, and the note read: We are brave enough, surrender our weapons and surrender. Pemberton had vowed to fight to the last of his soldiers, and now he had to punch himself in the mouth— and if he didn't order him not to surrender, his men would tie him up and offer Grant.
Then surrender, and Pemberton sent his men out of town to negotiate terms with Grant. His subordinates felt that their commander might be hungry and confused~ What other conditions were being discussed? What was Grant's usual style? Is unconditional surrender! Trapped in an isolated city, reinforcements are far away, is Pemberton so dead? If it was when Grant had just arrived and had not yet formed a siege, he had led more than 30,000 of his men to join the army with Johnston, and perhaps he could still fight with Gran's unique team.
But to a certain extent, Pemberton had to stick to him ~ he was a northerner, because he had been stationed in the South for a long time, plus he married a Virginia wife, so he resigned from the Union Army and defected to the South after the war; General Pemberton was born in the artillery corps, so he presided over the defense of Vikingsburg with the rank of Lieutenant General of the Southern Army; if he saw that the situation was not right and ran away, he would certainly be regarded as a traitor of the Northern Army "lurking" in the Southern Army when he returned to Richmond.
There is precedent for this kind of thing, such as General Robert E. Lee , who threw away lincoln's field commander appointment and rode lightly south, and the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was still his classmate, but because after the defeat on the battlefield in West Virginia, he was accused by some southern gatekeepers of being traitors to the North, and even if he won many battles, he failed to whitewash the charges imposed on him by these southern door valves.
Who is General Robert E. Lee? Among the first thirteen North American states that launched the American Revolutionary War, Virginia participated in this "revolution" in a total of five giants, one of which was the Lee family from General Robert E. Lee; in the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson, there were two signatories from the Lee family, Robert E.S. Lee's father was a senior cavalry general under Washington in the American Revolutionary War, and made outstanding military achievements; General Robert E.S. Lee's mother was also from the Carter family in the Southern Department Valve. The Lee family has been married from generation to generation, including the Harrison family, which produced two presidents, General Robert E. Lee is also the son-in-law of the Washington family, and his wife's mother is from the family of Thomas Jefferson, and his own grandmother, the beautiful woman who once made Washington "lose his soul", is also a relative of this family.
In short, even a northerner like General Robert E. Lee, who is linked to the "five families" of the Virginia Gate Valve, will be scolded by some other Southern Gatekeepers as traitors to the North, not to mention the northerner general of the Vikingsburg Army, General Pemberton, who "just married a wife who has nothing to do with any family"; since everyone is now demanding surrender, surrender.
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