{"id":30935,"date":"2023-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2021-03-07T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T15:37:47","slug":"the-siege-itself-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-siege-itself-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Siege Itself."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>July 1st, 1863.<\/em>\u2014Some months ago, thinking it might be useful, I obtained from the consul of my birthplace, by sending to another town, a passport for foreign parts. H. said if we went out to the lines we might be permitted to get through on that. So we packed the trunk, got a carriage, and on the 30th drove out there. General V. offered us seats in his tent. The rifle-bullets were whizzing so <em>zip, zip<\/em> from the sharp-shooters on the Federal lines that involuntarily I moved on my chair. He said, \u201cDon\u2019t be alarmed; you are out of range. They are firing at our mules yonder.\u201d His horse, tied by the tent door, was quivering all over, the most intense exhibition of fear I\u2019d ever seen in an animal. General V. sent out a flag of truce to the Federal headquarters, and while we waited wrote on a piece of silk paper a few words. Then he said, \u201cMy wife is in Tennessee. If you get through the lines, give her this. They will search you, so I will put it in this toothpick.\u201d He crammed the silk paper into a quill toothpick, and handed it to H. It was completely concealed. The flag-of-truce officer came back flushed and angry. \u201cGeneral Grant says that no human being shall pass out of Vicksburg; but the lady may feel sure danger will soon be over. Vicksburg will surrender on the 4th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that so, general?\u201d inquired H. \u201cAre arrangements for surrender made?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know nothing of the kind. Vicksburg will not surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose were General Grant\u2019s exact words, sir,\u201d said the flag-officer. \u201cOf course it is nothing but their brag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We went back sadly enough, but to-day H. says he will cross the river to General Porter\u2019s lines and try there; I shall not be disappointed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Note: To protect Mrs. Miller\u2019s job as a teacher in post-civil war New Orleans, her diary was published anonymously, edited by G. W. Cable, names were changed and initials were generally used instead of full names<em>\u2014<\/em>and even the initials differed from the real person\u2019s initials. (Read Dora Richards Miller\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/dora-richards-miller-war-diary-of-a-union-woman-in-the-south\/\">biographical sketch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 1st, 1863.\u2014Some months ago, thinking it might be useful, I obtained from the consul of my birthplace, by sending to another town, a passport for foreign parts. H. said if we went out to the lines we might be permitted to get through on that. So we packed the trunk, got a carriage, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-diary-of-a-union-woman-in-the-south"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Dora-Richards-Miller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}