These were of many different calibers, a fact that caused much trouble in distributing ammunition during an engagement.

The enemy had generally new arms which had run the blockade and were of uniform caliber.

After the surrender I authorized all colonels whose regiments were armed with inferior muskets, to place them in the stack of captured arms and replace them with the latter.

A large number of arms turned in to the Ordnance Department as captured, were thus arms that had really been used by the Union army in the capture of Vicksburg.
In this narrative I have not made the mention I should like of officers, dead and alive, whose services entitle them to special mention.

Neither have I made that mention of the navy which its services deserve.
Suffice it to say, the close of the siege of Vicksburg found us with an army unsurpassed, in proportion to its numbers, taken as a whole of officers and men.