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Sympathetic View of Vicksburg's John C. Pemberton

New for December 2025 • 13m

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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