The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-11

and his entire force adds the fourth 10
tbs list of rebel armies surrendered to
Lieut. Gen. Grant during the present
/ war.
The first surrender was that of Major
Gen. S. B. Buckner, of Fort DoneIs1n
on the 10th day of February, 1862 Here
zen Grant captured over 1900 pris-
oners, 1000 horses, nearly 10000 stand
OF arms, IS field pieces, Il heavy guns
and a great qUantity Of ordnance and
/ commissary stores.
The second surrender was that If
Lieut. Gen. J. c. Pemberton. at Viclxs.
hurgh, on the 4th day of july 1853
There Grant captured 20 general Off
GERS, more than 1000 other officers %
| VJO effective men, and about 6 900 in
hospltals--a total of some $4,000 men
| OF guns, he captured at Vicksburgb
rs pieces of field artillery and qOsieoa
! guns, besides SO field pieces in the bsf-
! ties out fide VicksbUrIh-a total of 2OI
guns OF small arms, lie captured 10
600 IN the previous battles, and $4,000
on the surrender-a total Of $1,000 The
enemy had lost, in the previous battles.
three general officers. and "at least 10
600 killed and wounded" ACCORDING N
/ Grants official report, and "arn1s and
| munitions OF war for an army of 10000
men fell into our hands, besides large
amount of railroads, locomotives, cars.
steam boats, cotton DC, and much was
destroyed to prevent our capturing 1t.
The moral, the political and the stra-
getlc influence of the fall. of Vicks
buTgh was at once unparalleled and in
! calculable Il Immediately and for
ever opened the Mississippi and was
the first and only permanent "biseo
ton OF the Confederacy during the
war It directly produced the fall
Of Port Hudson, the satellite fortress of
Vicksburgh. The former might have
been besieged 10 this day, had OF Grant
conquered the latter. The fall of Port
Hudson was as direct a coroIary from
that of Vicksburgh, as the surrender of
johnston has been the corollary of the
surrender of Lee To the spoils of
Nlcksburgh we must, therefore. add.
from Port Hudson, $4,000 prisoners 20
heavy guns, g. fed pieces. A 800
pounds OF powder, 10000 rounds small
arm ammunition, 5000 stand of arms.
2 steamers and considerable ordnance
and stores.
Passing the Chattanooga campaign
and Grants great victory there, we
come TO the third regular surrender,
by Gen X. E. Lee, of the entire ARMY
OF Northern Virginia" at Appomattox
Court House, on the 9Th day of April. |
1863. Twenty-six thousand paroled
prisoners, 10000 stand of small arms.
100 cannon. 20 flags. 1000 wagons. am,
bulances and calssOns, and 1900 or
4,OOO horses and mules, are the approx.
innate figures of the immediate results
OF that surrender. But several thou
sand prisoners were supposed to have
| gone without parole for want of rations.
An army OF 10000 men was, in ten
days, all destroyed, killed, wounded,
surrendered or forever dispersed. Rich
mond and Petersburg were carried,
Virginia overrun, and the rebellion viz
tualiy ended. The reduction of the
entire armed forces Of the rebellion,
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, '
was made an immediate consequence
House.
II louI n surrender was that of Gen. /
>. L Johnston, at Durham Station. on |
the 10Th day of April, 1865. Over p. 4
700 prisoners and over 90 guns are the
partial fruits Of this fourth and last
surrender.
The surrender of Lee has already di
rectly produced that Of nearly or quite
All the other forces Of the rebellion
Dick Iaylor's army has already proba-
bly, capitulated to Candy, Gu the terms
granted TO Lee Kirby smith has
doubtless followed the suit on the 9th
er side OF the Mississippi river Next 4
will come Price and McGruder; and
then few banditti will be all that re-
mains to tell of the great armies
which Grant in one year felled to the
earth and crushed
In these four main surrenders alone /
we have the astounding achievements
TO pass to the credit'of the Lieutt n ant
General not only IN the great and de 4
clslyye strategetical points gained, but
in the material statistical fruits of the
capltulatioDs. Four armies, more than
IOOrOOO men, 6UO guns, 100000 stand of
arms, and material almost too great to
oe computed, and the results of these
Tour surrenders made to Grant in per
son We leave out of the account
such items as the surrender of Arlzap-
sss Post, with its 5000 prisoners and
40 guns, and the 5000 prisoners and 40
guns captured at Chattanooga. and the
900 prisoners and $50 guns at Fort ,
tlsher,and Wilmington. Butn reolk-
onng the killed and wounded. and the =
troops dispersed by Grants gigantic :
battles the prisoners alone captured q
by him before his promotion y
TO the Lieutenant Generally, and by J
INN and his subordinates since that
tune, already surpass the enormous 3
number OF 100000, and the guns can
tured are more than 1000
Verify, this soldier is entitled 10 rank D
N history as the "capturer of armies
buckner, Pemberton. Lee and Jobns
5ton reaped honors in warfare only for
Grant 70 gather When the other Con
ederate Generals shall have added q
heir defeats to his renown. there will n
1e other figures 10 swell the propor-
1ans o: captures even now almost in
sredible.
Precisely one year ago this day.
-lent Gen Grant having thrown the
Army OF the Potomac across the Ran
dan for the conquest of Richmond.
marched from Charlottesville and
,pened that tremendous series of bat
les, known in history as the Battles of
he Wilderness. The whole South is
low at his feet, its great armies melt
d into thin aiE"-N T. Tines. Nan 2
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