johnston says we should leave. we must, if possible, save the troops. it says to evacuate vicksburg. [ sighs ] sergeant, i will not abandon vicksburg. [ indistinct conversations ] pemberton he was an able officer in mexico. he s a good northern who s just [chuckles] fallen in with bad company. i suppose that once the slaveholders get their hooks into you, it s hard to get them out. doesn t your own wife come from a slaveholding family? she does.
johnston says we should leave. we must, if possible, save the troops. it says to evacuate vicksburg. [ sighs ] sergeant, i will not abandon vicksburg. [ indistinct conversations ] pemberton he was an able officer in mexico. he s a good northern who s just [chuckles] fallen in with bad company. i suppose that once the slaveholders get their hooks into you, it s hard to get them out. doesn t your own wife come from a slaveholding family? she does.
all-out assault against well-defended fortifications. he s patient to develop a plan that will ensure success while limiting the loss of his troops. after two attempts to take the city by force, grant realizes this isn t working. he settles in for a siege. he parks his army outside of the city, cuts off the rebel supply lines, and intends to starve the city into submission. [ birds chirping ] inside the city, confederate general john pemberton weighs his options, counting on reinforcements from general joseph johnston to break grant s siege. isn t it a bit too soon to celebrate, sir? john pemberton and ulysses s. grant both were northern men who had married southern women. in pemberton s case, however, that helped lead him to choose the confederate side. message from general johnston.
fight ensues. the union is able to drive the rebel forces back, and they begin plans to set off a second mine. [ explosion ] sir, they ve blown a gap in our line. i don t think we can hold out. with grant and his federal army closing in, confederate general john pemberton is running out of options. gather the staff. the prospect of more mines blowing more holes in the rebel line make mounting a counterattack almost impossible. we ll weigh our options. but facing u.s. grant, with his reputation for unconditional surrender, is not much better. in the end, it s pemberton s own men who tip the scale, threatening him with mutiny if he refuses to surrender. grant has done everything he can to bring vicksburg to its knees, but if the rebels continue to resist, grant may have to do the unthinkable. before nexium 24hr mark could only imagine.
the general who had basically set up a series of defenses around the city of vicksburg, trying to hold off all of the federals. and, of course, that fellow all of his people were starving. and so the message, apparently, was a response to the general who was under siege in the city. and the message, as it was decoded reads general pemberton, you can expect no hell from this side of the river. let general johnson know if possible when you can attack the same point on the enemy s line inform me also and i will endeavor to make a diversion. i shall join a dispatch from general johnson. end quote. that little piece of paper, that s what that says right in there. exactly. listen, does this change the course of history in any way? does it change anything about the civil war? what we ve learned, what we re going to be teaching about it or should be teaching? it probably doesn t revolutionize our studies of the war. i think it certainly helped to energize them.