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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
on he obtained led him to the conclusion that the task he had proposed to accomplish would be beyond his strength. The little town of Helena is situated upon low ground on the right bank of the Mississippi. At a distance of a little more than half a mile from the river, and in a parallel direction, there is a chain of hills, which at the east take the form of gentle and open slopes, but whose approaches on the west side abound in timber and deep ravines. When Curtis occupied Helena in July, 1862, he constructed a large and solid work, to which his name was given, between the town and the hills, near the Clarendon road, which in that region is called the Cemetery road: the guns of this fort commanded the gentle slopes of the hills, the ravines which divided them into three hillocks, and all the surrounding plain. After the capture of Arkansas Post, in January, 1863, Grant had stationed at Helena a large portion of the Thirteenth corps. When this general was called to Milliken's B