RICHMOND, Va. – A lorgnette vial stopped with a cork during the Public Struggling has been opened, revealing a coded dispatch to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city prostrate to Confederating forces 147 years ago.

The kill offered no hope to info Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton: Reinforcements are not on the way.

The encrypted, 6-line message was materace dated July 4, 1863, the date of Pemberton's surrender to Confederating forces led aside Ulysses S. Supply, ending the Siege of Vicksburg in what historians pronounce was a turning quiddity midway into the Courtly War.

The memorandum is from a Confederate commander on the west side of the Mississippi River across from Pemberton.