A cheer started and swept part of the way along the lines, but the officers quickly stopped it.
"Vicksburg is ours," said Dick.
"Looks like it," said Warner.
But Grant told Bowen that he would treat only with Pemberton, and after delays General Pemberton came out.

General Grant went forward to meet him.

The two stood alone under a tree within seventy yards of the Confederate lines and talked.
Chance or fortune presented a startling coincidence.

Almost at the very moment that Grant and Pemberton met under the tree Pickett's men were rising to their feet and preparing for the immortal but fatal charge at Gettysburg.

While the cannon had ceased suddenly at Vicksburg they were thundering from many score mouths at Gettysburg.