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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], No more wooden tenements. (search)
Vicksburg and to take the read leading to Clinton. This order was disregarded. In concluding his report, Gen. Johnston, says: Convinced of the impossibility of collecting a sufficient force to break the investment of Vicksburg, should it be completed — appreciating the difficulty of extricating the garrison, and convinced that Vicksburg and Port Hudson had lost most of their value by the repeated passage of armed vessels and transports, I ordered the evacuation of both places. General Gardner did not receive this order before the investment of Port Hudson, if at all. General Pemberton set aside this order, under the advice of a council of war; and though he had in Vicksburg eight thousand fresh troops, not demoralized by defeat, decided that it "was impossible to withdraw the army from this position, with such morale and material as to be of further service to the Confederacy;" but "to hold Vicksburg as long as possible, with the firm hope that the Government may yet be able