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The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant
Part 3.

CHAPTER XXXV
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Our loss was 410 killed, 1,844 wounded and 187 missing.

Hovey alone lost 1,200 killed, wounded and missing--more than one-third of his division.
Had McClernand come up with reasonable promptness, or had I known the ground as I did afterwards, I cannot see how Pemberton could have escaped with any organized force.

As it was he lost over three thousand killed and wounded and about three thousand captured in battle and in pursuit.

Loring's division, which was the right of Pemberton's line, was cut off from the retreating army and never got back into Vicksburg.
Pemberton himself fell back that night to the Big Black River.

His troops did not stop before midnight and many of them left before the general retreat commenced, and no doubt a good part of them returned to their homes.


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