Two Union generals who figured significantly in the Siege of Vicksburg did not leave reports that appear either in the Officlal Reports or in the Supplement to the Official Reports: Maj. Gens. James B. McPherson and John A. Logan. The figures they etched on the memories of their fellow soldiers make the case ever more curious. Many soldiers have recollections of Logan, who built his headquarters in the front line and walked that line every day holding a spyglass, with his shirttails hanging out. Few recall the appearance of McPherson, Logan's corps commander, besides McPherson's chief engineer, Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper, who oversaw the digging of the first military mine exploded in United States history. Biographies exist of Logan, who lived twenty years after the war and died a U. S. Senator. No worthwhile biography exists of McPherson, who perished at the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. Does anyone know of the existence of reports that either of these soldiers may have filed on the Siege of Vicksburg? If not, does anyone know a researcher who lives near the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library in Fremont, Ohio?
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