RICHMOND, Va. – A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi urban district kill to Uniting forces 147 years ago.

The report offered no faith to bewitched Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton: Reinforcements are not on the way.

The encrypted, 6-line idea was dated July 4 obrazy , 1863, the date of Pemberton's forgo to Alliance forces led via Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Besiegement of Vicksburg in what historians phrase was a turning spike midway into the Civil War.

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