Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the battles of May 19-22, 1863

They are upon us: May 17

On the war-path for Vicksburg: May 18

A long dreadful day: Fifteenth Corps, May 19

I hope every man will follow me: Seventeenth and Thirteenth Corps, May 19

This will be a hard place to take: May 20-21

Dismay and bewilderment: Blair, May 22

Now, boys, you must do your duty: McPherson, May 22

The horror of the thing bore me down like an avalanche: McClernand and Osterhaus, May 22

Boys, you have just fifteen minutes to live: 2nd Texas Lunette, May 22

A thousand bayonets glistened in the sunlight: railroad redoubt, May 22

I don't believe a word of it: Grant, Sherman, and McClernand, May 22

Am holding position but suffering awfully: Blair, Ransom, and Tuttle, May 22

It made the tears come to my eyes: Steele, May 22

Boys, don't charge those works: Logan and Quinby, May 22

It is absolutely necessary that they be dislodged: reclaiming railroad redoubt, May 22

An ardent desire to participate in the capture of Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, Porter, and McArthur, May 22

I feel sad but not discouraged: making sense of May 22

I am surfeited, sick, and tired of witnessing bloodshed: casualties, wounded, prisoners

No one would have supposed that we were mortal enemies: burial, mourning

They ought to be remembered: honors, infamy, life stories

Eventful on the page of history: commemoration.