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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC00639.20 |
From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863 |
Title | Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton about the Siege of Vicksburg |
Date | 29 March 1863 |
Author | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
Recipient | Stanton, Edwin McMasters |
Document Type | Correspondence; Government document |
Content Description | Re: false reports of siege of Vicksburg. "I fear --in fact, I believe--the dispatch you mentioned is utter humbuggery...." |
Subjects | President Lincoln's Cabinet Military History Civil War Battle Battle of Vicksburg Journalism Union Forces |
People | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) |
Place written | [Washington, D.C.] |
Theme | The American Civil War; Government & Politics |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Additional Information | Notes: Basler 6: 155 notes that the New York Mercury printed a false report of Grant's army bypassing Vicksburg by canal. Captain Fox is Gustavus V. Fox. Pennock is Captain Alexander M. Pennock, commanding the naval station at Cairo, Ill. The false report may stem from an actual attempt to build a canal. After he failed to take Vicksburg in December of 1862, Grant ordered Sherman to renew work on a canal to bypass the city. He abandoned the effort in March of 1863 when flood waters failed to cut a deep-water channel through the canal. James McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Second edition (New York: McGraw Hill, 1982, 1992): 310. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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