be accepted, white flags should be displayed
along your lines to prevent such of my troops as may not have
been notified from firing upon your men.

I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
U. S. GRANT,
_Major-General_.

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_General Pemberton to General Grant._

To Headquarter, Vicksburg,
MAJOR-GENERAL U. S. GRANT, July 4, 1863.
Commanding United States Forces before Vicksburg.

General: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
communication of this day, and in reply to say that the terms
proposed by you are accepted.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. C. PEMBERTON,
_Lieutenant-General_.

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_General Grant to the Assistant Adjutant-General._

Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi,
To In the Field, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
COLONEL J. C. KELTON, December 23d, 1863.
Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C.

Colonel: In pursuance of General Orders, No. 337, War Department,
of date Washington, October 16th, 1863, delivered to me by the
Secretary of War, at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 18th of the
same month, I assumed command of the "Military Division of the
Mississippi," comprising the Departments of the Ohio, the
Cumberland, and the Tennessee, and telegraphed the order (p. 395)
assuming command, together with the order of the War
Department, referred to, to Major-General A. E. Burnside, at
Knoxville, and to Major-General W. S. Rosecrans, at Chattanooga.
My action in telegraphing these orders to Chattanooga in advance
of my arrival there, was induced by information furnished me by
the Secretary of War, of the difficulties with which the Army of
the Cumberland had to contend in supplying itself over a long,
mountainous, and almost impassable road from Stevenson, Alabama,
to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and his fears that General Rosecrans
would fall back to the north side of the Tennessee river. To
guard further against the possibility of the Secretary's f