The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-12-13

J GERS and 1,416 enlisted men killed, 474
officers and 6,921 enlisted men wound
! ed, 10 officers and 443 enlisted men
captured or missing-tota1 1852. About
One-half Of this loss was sustained in
the battles preceding the siege and the
remainder after Vicksburg was invest
ed. The army had 220 pieces of light
and heavy artillery in position about
Vicksburg June 80, not including the
armament Of Porters fleet.
General Pemberton's Vicksburg army
as shown by the statistics taken at it's
parole consisted Of organizations rep
resenting states as follows: Alabama
Infantry 9, artillery 3; total IL. Ar
kansas-Infantry 5, cavalry 1, artillery
2; total s. Georgia-Infantry TO- ar
tillery /; total II. Louisiana-Infan-
try Z, artillery IS; total Is. Missouri
Infantry 5, cavalry 2, artillery 5; total
IL. Mississippi-Infantry Is, artillery
8; total %. Maryland-Artillery l.
Tennessee-Infantry T. cavalry 1, artil-
tery 8; total 16 Texas-Infantry 8,
cavalry 1, artillery 1; total 5. Virginia
! Artillery 1. This, including Getty
Guards" and Partisan Rangers" cred
tied to Mississippi, and, in the total,
three companies paroled as Signal
Corps with no state named. makes an
aggregate of 81 regiments or parts of
! regiments of infantry, five of cavalry
and 40 batteries Of artillery-116 or
CARNATIONS. At the same time General
Johnston appears to have had with him
30 regiments or parts of regiments of
infantry 3 of cavalry and IA batteries
of artillery-102 organizations.
The returns of casualties in the Con-
federate army, as given by the Official
Records, are seriously incomplete, but
an aggregate is shown of 1864 officers
and men killed, 3,740 officers and men
wounded and 1926 officers and men
captured and missing-a total of $3.50.
not including the 29,491 officers and
men surrendered with Vicksburg, 1876
OF whom are returned as sick or
wounded in hospital OF the above
casualties sos are reported killed, 1888
wounded and 129 captured or missing
/ during the siege-Stevenson's division
only reporting for the period from May
10 to June Is, and the brigades of
| Vaughn and Baldwin not being re-
ported at all. Lieutenant General Ste
phen D. Lee, in papers recently con-
tributed to the publications of the
Mississippi Historical Society,"" says
Pemberton's March return shows
present for duty 48,829 men," includ-
| ing the garrison of 1000 at Port Hud-
son and some smaller garrisons else
where. He also gives '20,069 men as
| the total number Of reinforcements
sent by the Confederate government to
Mississippi to relieve Vicksburg" AS
| to the siege he states that "the entire
army for the defense of Vicksburg,
after the city was invested, did not
| reach 1880 men for duty" Consider
ing the number surrendered this aD-
pears too small; but it is certain that
the number Of active defenders Of the
city admitted of almost no reserve
force and kept practically every man
on duty in the trenches throughout the
AZ days and nights of the close and
exhaustive struggled fact that testi-
lies more than mere words to the hero
ism and valor of the garrison,
Such, in brief and imperfect outline,
is the chapter of history that has made
the name of Vicksburg as we'll and
widely known as that of any of the
worlds great battlefelds. It's results
1y,N
effect upon the pending struggle than
that of any single operation OF the
war. For not only was an army of
more than 10000 men destroyed for
present usefulness and very large cap
lures made of munitions of war 172
pieces of artillery and 10000 stands of
small arms at Vicksburg alone), but
the great inland waterway came per-
manently into Federal use and control.
the Confederacy was cut in twain and
the east shut off from the desperately
needed food products of western Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkan-
sas.
Under these circumstances it almost
seems strange that it was so late as
1895 before the matter of establishing
national park here was even agi-
tated. And it is to Captain John F.
Merry, a comrade of the Grand Army
from Dubuque, Iowa, we'll known
throughout the west and south. as as
sistant general passenger agent of the
Illinois Central Railroad, that belongs
the high honor of finally taking the
Initiative in the matter, as we'll as of
lending most valuable aid in carrying
it TO success. It was during a farm.
er's convention in Vicksburg III Feb
ruary, 1885, that the presentation to
Captain Merry for signature of petit
ton asking congress to appropriated
ly mark or designate some of the more
notable lines and FORTS" suggested to
| his mind the greater project To think
was to act, and through the Iowa dele
cation to the National Encampment.
G. A. R., at Louisville, that year. the
passage by that body Of resolution
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