Sympathetic View of Vicksburg's John C. Pemberton
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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History remembers John Clifford Pemberton as the Northern-born Confederate general who surrendered his forces garrisoning the Mississippi River fortress city of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. Following his death in Philadelphia in 1881, a local newspaper remembered "the doom of a beaten man was on him." Here's the story.
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