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VOLUME II CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1863, NUMBER 40
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Capitulation of Vicksburjj?flu; Full
Official Correspondence.
The Northern papers publish the following
as the full correspondence between General
Grant and Pernberton preliminary to the surrender
of Vicksburg :
Headquarters, Vicksburg, }
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Major General U.S. Grant.
Commanding United Stales Forces :
General : I have the honor to propose to
you an armistice of?hours, with a view to arrange
terms for the capitulation of Vicksburg.
To this end, if agreeable, I will appoint three
commissioners, to meet a like number to be
named by youisolf, at such place and hour today
as you may find convenient. I make this
proposition to save the further effusion of blood,
which must otherwise be shed to a frightful extent,
feeiiv.g myself fully able to maintain my
position a yet indefinite period.
This communication'will be handed you, under
fiag of truce, by Major General James
Bowen.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John C. Pemdektox.
To this General Grart replied as follows :
Headquarters Department of Tenn., >
In the Field, near Vicksburg, July 2. $
Lieut. Gen. J. C. P ember ton, Commanding
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fu/f/t'di'/wtr etc. .
General : Your note of this date is just re
ccived, proposing an armistice of several hours,
for the purpose of arranging terms-of capitula
tion, through commissioners, to be appointed,
etc. The effusion of blood you propose stopping
by this course can be ended, at any time
you may choose, by an unconditional surrender
of the city and garrison. Men who have shown
so much endurance and courage as those now
in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect
of an adversary; and I can assure yon will be
treated with all the respect due them as prisoners
ofwar.
I do not favor the proposition of appointing
commissioners to arrange terms of capitulation,
because I have no other terms than those indicated
above. I am, General,
Very respectfully, your ob't. serv't.
U. S. Grant, Major General.
Bowen, the bearer of Pemberton's letter, was
received by Gen. A. G^ Smith, lie expressed
a stroner desire to converse with Gen. Grant.
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and accordingly Grant, while declining this, requested
Gen. Smith to say that if Gen. Pemberton
desired to see hiin, an interview would be
granted be'.wcenthe lines in McPhcrson's front,
at any hour in the afternoon which Pemberton
might appoint.
A message was soon sent back to Smith, appointing
3 o'clock as the hour. Grant was
there with his staff, and Gens. Ord, 5lcPhcrson
Logan and A. J. Smith. Pemberton came
late, attended by Gen. How ?m. a . Pol. Montgomery.
He was much excited and impertinent
in his answers to Grant.
The conversation was held apart 'between
Pemberton and his officers and Grant, McPherson
and A.J. Smith. The rebels insisted on
being paroled and allowed to inarch beyond
our lines hence, officers and all, with eight
days' rations, drawn fuom their own stores, the
officers to retain their property and body servants.
Gen. Grant heard what they had to say, and
left them at the end of ati hour and a half, saying
that he would send in his ultimatum in writing!
To which Pomberton promised to reply
before night, hostilities to cease in the meantime!
Headquarters Dep't. Tennesee, )
July 2d, 1803. f
Lieut. General J. C\ P ember ton % Commanding
Confederate Forces at Vicksburg :
General : In conformity with the agreement
of this afternoon, I will submit the following
proposition for the surrender of the city of
Vicksburg, bublio stores, etc., on your accepting
the terms proposed :
"I will march in one division as a guard and
take possession at 8 a. m., to-morrow. As soon
as paroles ean be made out and signed by officers
and men, you will bo allowed to march
out of our lines, the officers taking with them
their regimental clothing, and staff, field and
cavalry officers one h.orse each. The rank and
tile will be allowed all their clothing, but no
other property. If these conditions are accepted,
any amount of rations you may deem necessary
can be taken from the stores you now
have, and also the necessary cooking utensils
for preparing them. Thirty wagons, also, with
two horses or mule teams, you will be allowed
to transport such articles as cannot be carried
along. The same conditions will be allowed
to all the sick and wounded ollicers and privates
as fast as they become able to travel.
The paroles for these latter must be signed,
however, while officers are present authorized
to sign the roll of prisoners.
"I am, General, very respectfully,
"Your obedient servant,
"U. S. Grant, Major Gen.1'
The officer who received this letter stated
that it would be impossible to answer it by
night, as it was not till a little before day that
the proposed reply was furnished.
"Headquarters, Vicksburu, July 3.
"To Major General U. S. Grant, Commanding
United States Forces, etc :
"Gbneral: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication of thisdate?
proposing terms for the surrender of this garrison
and post. In the main, vonr terms arc accepted,
but in justice both to the honor and
spirit of my troops, as manifested in the defence
of Vicksburg, I have the honor to submit the
following amendments, which, if acceded to by
you, will perfect the agreement between us at
ten o'clock to-morrow. I propose to vacate
the works in and around Vicksburg, and to
surrender the command by marching out with
my colors and arms, and stacking them in
front of my present lines, after which you will
take possession; officers to retain their side
arms. Personal property and the rights and
property of citizens to be respected.
"I am, General, yours very respectfully,
"J. C. Pemberton,
"Lieutenant General."
To this Grant immediately replied as follows:
Headquarters Department Tennesee, ]
Uejorc Vicksburg, July 4, 186.3. j
Lieut. General J. C. P ember ton, Commanding
Forces in Vicksburg:
General: I have the honor to acknowledge
{ your communication of the .3d of July. The
amendments proposed by you cannot be acceded
to in full. It will be necessary to furnish
every officer and man with a parole signed
I by himself, which, with the completion of the
! rolls of the prisoners, will necessarily take some
; time. Again, I can make no stipulation with
! regard to the treatment of citizens and their
u
1 private property. While I do not propose to
! cause any of them any undue annoyance or
| loss, I cannot consent to leave myself under rei
slraint by stipulation. The property which
officers can be allowed to take with them will
be as stated in the proposition of last evening.
Officers will be allowed their private baggage
and side arms, and mounted officers one horse
each. If you mean by your proposition for
each brigade to march to the front of the lines
now occupied by it, and stack their arms at 10
o'clock, a. in., and then retnrn to the inside
and remain as prisoners until properly paroled, ,
I will timke no objection to it.
Should no notification be made of your acceptance
of iny terms by 9 o'clock, a. in., I
shall regard them as having been rejected, and
act accordingly. Should these terms be accepted,
white flags will be displayed along my
lines, to prevent such of my troops as may not
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nave ueeu nounca irom nring upon your men.
I am, General, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
, U. S. Grant,
Major General, U. S. A.
To this tlie subjoined answer was received :
Headquarters, Vicksbuug, July 4,18(53
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, Commanding United
States Forces, <Ssc.;
General : 1 have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communications of this date
and in reply say that thq terms proposed by
yon arc excepted. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. C. Pbmbekton,
Lieutenant General.
Tlic Confederacy Subjugated.
the washington cabinet, thinking the confederacy
subjugated, is considering
peace-1?mr. seward wishes to offer an
amnesty to t1ie sbujugatkd confederates.
?Among the richest telegrams from Washo
o
ington that we find in the New York Herald
is one dated on the 12th inst. Since the news
from New York we rather think that an amnesty
to the "rebels" in that city had better
first be disposed of. The correspondent says :
I am enabled postively to announce that the
question of peace has already been considered
in Cabinet circles. More than that, we are actually
in the midst of a Cabinet crisis, growing
out of a proposition made by Mr. Seward for
issuance of a Presidential proclamation offering
an amnesty in the people of the South,
withdrawing the emancipation, suspending the
liabilities of the confiscation act, and offering,
in short, full and free pardon and protection in
their personal and property rights to the people
of the South, only excepting the military
and civil leaders in this great rebellion, liven
these Mr. Seward suggests should he allowed
their property, hut not to he eligible to hold
ofliee under tlio Government. This proposition
has been considered in Cabinet council so far
informal; hut it has developed two parties.
Mr. Bates and Montgomery Blair favor it
with certain modifications, while Messrs. Stanton
and Chase violently oppose it. Mr. Welles
is supposed also to he opposed to it. Mr. Usher,
who always votes with the President, will decide
whichever way that functionary does.
The President has as yet expressed no opioion
on this subject; hut his speech at the serenade
would seem to indicate that lie is in favor of
trying to make good his promise to free the
slaves before consenting to a peace in the present
emergency.
There are a number of leading Republicans
now in this city, and the matter has been
brouerht to their notice. Thev have jirrm-.nred
a programme, which will be submitted to the
President to-day or to-morrow, under which
they arc willing that peace should be declared
and the Uuion restored. It embraces the following
points, which it is stated, weresuggested
bv Mr. Chase :
First?Slavery sli d) cease in the whole United
States after the year 1876, the minors at
that time to remain slaves until twenty-one
years of age, and slaves over forty years old to
have the option of their freedom or to remain .
with their masters. Provision is made for the
loyal slave States receiving compensation for
their manumitted ncgros, but no compensation
will be allowed to the rebel States.
Second?A convention shall be called to revise
the Constitution of the United States, with
a view to striking out the three-fifths provision
recognizing slavery as a basis of representative J
population, and providing for the emancipation
of the slaves in accordance with the above programme.
. Such is the scheme of the Republicans, and
if Mr. Lincoln will consent to it, and the South
is willing, we may have peace within two
months. Mr. Seward's proposition is being
vehemently denounced in Republican circles.
He is called a traitor. Stanton insists that the
rebels must be driven to the wall; that no proposition
shall be made to them; that, as thev
opened the tight first at Sumter, so they must
consent to make the first tenders of peace: that
it would bo humiliating after two and a half
years of war, if the United States should endeavor
to open peaceful relations with armed
insurgents, lie insists upon war to the bitter
end, and is hacked by the violent Abolitionists
and the enormous contracting interests,
which of course do not wish to see the great
source of their profits swept away. This last
party will exetvise a most powerful influence
upon the deliberations 011 this subject. They
arc all powerful here in all the departments,
especially in the Navy, and War, and Treasury
departments. Hence it is supposed that Mr.
Welles, Mr. Stanton, and Mr. Chase can be
relied upon for the strongest opposition to all
means looking towards an early peace.
The influence of human example is demoralizing
even the feathered bipeds of the poultry
yard. The liens have reduced the size of
their eggs, to keep in fashion, we suppose, with
the bakers, whose loaves has shrunk away into
such minute proportions that, after an inspection
of the bread pills, called loaves, one remains
in uoubt whether the shop is that of a
baker or h homeopathic physician. "We have
two homeopathic eggs laid by progressive and
imitative hens, of which it may bo said that
thov hear the snirip nrnnnHion in r.1/1
_ - V vj/v ? v? V4? VV V?\A lUOUlVUVU
eggs th.it currency now does to gold and silver.
It would take seven ar eight to make I
one. "Who would have thougnt of pullets
studying political economy, and laying down
the law so?eggs actly. We don't admire the
new movement in hen fruit. We don't look
upon hens that lay marbles and call them eggs,
at all honest or conscientious. The eggs before
us look like the lay of the last minstrel.?
W i I in i ny tern J on rna I.
l)an Collins, of New York, an old States
Prison bird.is now Federal Mayor of Portsmouth,
Virginia. The viler the tool the more*
satisfaction to Lincoln.
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Persons wishing to insuro their property, will have a
favorable opportunity of doing so, in perhaps as safe a
Company as there is in the Confederate States.
May 22 N. D. BAXLEY, Agent.
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Charleston, S. C., October 1, 1862.
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Particular attention must be paid to tho packing o
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year the Government experienced heavy loss from
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