General John C. Pemberton was native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a West Point
Military Academy graduate. It was because of the influence of his Virginia born wife and
many years of service in the southern states before the Civil War, that he became devoted
to the South. Pemberton was made a Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army and assigned
to defend Vicksburg and the Mississippi River. Upon Vicksburg's surrender, he voluntarily
resigned his commission and served as a lieutenant colonel of artillery for the remainder
of the war, a testimonial of his loyalty to the South.
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