Excerpt from A Story of Vicksburg and Jackson, "Lest We Forget" Dispatches of Charles A. Dana; General John A. McClernand, Commanding 13th Army Corps; General Jacob G. Lauman, Commanding 4th Division, 16th A. C.; Report of Colonel Isaac Pugh, 41st Illinois, Commanding First Brigade Certainly there is no more important subject in connection with the history of the Civil War than Vicksburg, and no other important point about which so little has been written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.