John Pemberton

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John Pemberton

• Cadet KaRensa Polk

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Agenda

• Opening Who is Pemberton?
• Family and attributes
• Vicksburg
• Mistakes
• Closing

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Pemberton

• Promoted to brigadier general on 17 June 1861.
• In February, 1862, Pemberton was appointed major
  general in command of South Carolina, Georgia and
  Florida.
• Six months later he was made lieutenant general
  and given command over Mississippi and Tennessee.
  Major General
• Commander of the 43,00 Confederate forces at
  Vicksburg

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Pemberton

• Family and Friends
• Native of Pennsylvania
• Ties to the Confederacy come from his Southern
  wife
• Attributes
• Never had led troops in battle before the Civil
  War and never led them successfully during the
  war
• Acerbic personality had problems dealing with
  civilian leaders in particular

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PembertonVicksburg

• Placement of Confederates
• Conflicting orders from Davis (defend Vicksburg)
  and Johnston (attack Grant)
• Confederates attitude of Pemberton
• Suspicious
• Largely remembered as The General who Lost
  Vicksburg

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Closing

• What happened to Pemberton?
• Severely reduced in rank to lieutenant colonel,
  but proved his loyalty to the South by continuing
  to serve in backwater assignments in various
  locations
• Largely vilified throughout the South

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References

• Douglas Freeman. Pemberton Defender of
  Vicksburg. Chapel Hill University of North
  Carolina Press, 1942.
• Michael Ballard. Pemberton A Biography.
  Mississippi University Press of Mississippi,
  1991.
• Continued

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References

• G. Zeman Vicksburg. Retrieved Jan 2001 from World
  Wide Web http//www.nps.gov/vick/scenic/ctour/pa_
  pemb.htm