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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 1 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 21: slavery and Emancipation.--affairs in the Southwest. (search)
s above Vicksburg, on the 25th. the fleet consisted of more than sixty transports, besides a number of gun-boats (some of them armored), and some mortar-boats. the plan was to make an attack upon Vicksburg in the rear, with a strong force, and for that purpose the fleet and army passed up the Yazoo (which, in a great bend, sweeps: round within a few miles of Vicksburg the Yazoo River is a deep and narrow stream formed by the Tallahatchee and Yallobusha Rivers, which unite in Carroll County, Mississippi. It runs through an extremely fertile alluvial plain.) twelve miles, to Johnston's Landing, the troops debarking Dec. 26, 1862. at points in that vicinity along the space of three miles, without opposition. to understand the difficulties in Sherman's way, we must consider, for a moment, the topography of his field of intended operations. The bluffs or hills on which Vicksburg stands rise a little below the city, and extend northeast twelve or fifteen miles to the Yazoo River
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], The first Virginia regiment. (search)
An accident occurred on the Mobile, Ala., railroad, near that city, on the 4th inst., by which four soldiers belonging to Louisiana regiments were killed, and a number seriously wounded. An exchange paper explains the object of Morgan's late expedition. It says he had been indicted for treason in one of the counties of Kentucky, and went up to have his trial, but the case was postponed. Mathian B. Whitehead was killed by lightning, at his plantation in Carroll county, Miss., while standing under a tree during a thunder storm, one day last week. The Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, of August 7th says that Gen. Humphrey Marshall was in that city the day previous. His forces are guarding the important salt works and lead mines at Saltville and Wytheville, in Virginia.