After several turns of this the structure was reduced and Jackson's corp took several hits and then after a couple more turns and hits he suddenly surrendered (I think they took more damage from lack of supply than from hits), which was more or less what I expected, though it did surprise me that Jackson did not make one single attempt to break out, nor did the CSA ever attempt to send any support at all, but that's beside the point.
Then came the surrender and these messages were displayed; I had to back-up the game and take over the CSA to see the CSA message.
What irritates me is
1) that Jackson and a hand-full of additional 2 and 1 star generals were removed from the game and there was no message stating this, neither for the CSA nor the USA (I looked in the units roster and filtered for generals and couldn't find them).
[INDENT]Theoretically what could have happened to them is:
- They were killed (shouldn't happen, because they surrendered).
- They went to prison camps (shouldn't happen with officers of those ranks - IRL anyway - I've also never heard of this before in game).
- The were exchanged (shouldn't actually happen, because I never selected 'prisoner exchange' in the political ledger).
- They were paroled (I've never heard of this in-game, but what do I know).
2) Whipple, my corp commander, who won the siege the same way Grant won the siege of Vicksburg, was neither praised, nor promoted, nor made promotable, nor anything, even though the surrender brought 1 NM with it.
It seams that Lincoln was rather ungrateful for such a cheap victory. Is this normal, or does forcing a besieged force to surrender sometimes bring prizes for the victorious commander(s)?