Excerpt from The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg: From the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Prepared for the Use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy On the Mississippi River, the Army of the Tennessee under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was investing a Confederate force of men under Lieut. Gen. John C. Pemberton at Vicksburg. 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.