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Yazoo City (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
row levee, or a sand bar, which was perfectly commanded by the enemy's sharp-shooters that lined the levee, or parapet, on its opposite bank. Behind this was an irregular strip of bench, or table-land, on which were constructed a series of rifle pits and batteries, and behind that a high, abrupt range of hills, whose scarred sides were marked all the way up with rifle trenches, and the crowns of the principal hills presented heavy batteries. The county road, leading from Vicksburg to Yazoo City, runs along the foot of these hills, and answered an admirable purpose to the enemy as a covered way, along which he moved his artillery and infantry promptly to meet us at any point at which we attempted to pass this difficult bayou. Nevertheless that bayou, with its levee parapets, backed by the lines of rifle pits, batteries, and frowning hills, had to be passed before we could reach terra firma, and meet our enemy on any thing like fair terms. Steele, in his progress, followed subs
Thompson Lake (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
nemy as a covered way, along which he moved his artillery and infantry promptly to meet us at any point at which we attempted to pass this difficult bayou. Nevertheless that bayou, with its levee parapets, backed by the lines of rifle pits, batteries, and frowning hills, had to be passed before we could reach terra firma, and meet our enemy on any thing like fair terms. Steele, in his progress, followed substantially an old levee back from the Yazoo to the foot of the hills north of Thompson's Lake, but found that, in order to reach the hard land, he would have to cross a long corduroy cause-way, with a battery enfilading it, others cross-firing it, with a similar line of rifle pits and trenches before decribed. He skirmished with the enemy on the morning of the 28th, whilst the other columns were similarly engaged, but on close and critical examination of the swamp and causeway in front, with the batteries and rifle pits well manned, he came to the conclusion that it was imposs
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ragraph of that order: headquarters Thirteenth Army Corps, Department of the Tennessee, Oxford, Miss., December 8, 1862. Major-Gen. W. T. Sherman, commanding Right Wing Army in the Field, present. General: You will proceed with as little delay as practicable to Memphis, Tennessee, taking with you one division of your present command. On your arrival at Memphis you will assume command of all the troops there, and that portion of General Curtis' forces at present east of the Mississippi River, and organize them into brigades and divisions in your own way. As soon as possible move with them down the river to the vicinity of Vicksburg, and with the cooperation of the gun-boat fleet under command of Flag-Officer Porter, proceed to the reduction of that place in such manner as circumstances and your own judgment may dictate. * * * * U. S. Grant, Major-General. On the same day Grant telegraphed to Halleck: General Sherman will command the expedition down the Mississip
Walnut Hills (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ys in his Memoirs: The men of the Sixth Missouri actually scooped out with their hands caves in the bank, which sheltered them against the fire of the enemy, who, right over their heads, held their muskets outside the parapet vertically and fired down. Extracts from General Sherman's own account show the nature and difficulties of the ground, and the character of the whole attack: The place of our disembarkation was, in fact, an island, separated from the high bluff known as Walnut Hills, on which the town of Vicksburg stands, by a broad and shallow bayou—evidently an old channel of the Yazoo. On our right was another wide bayou known as Old River, and on the left still another, much narrower, but too deep to be forded, known as Chickasaw Bayou. All the island was densely wooded, except Johnson's plantation, immediately on the bank of the Yazoo, and a series of old cotton-fields along Chickasaw Bayou. There was a road from Johnson's plantation directly to Vicksburg, bu
Grenada (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
led officers. My plan was by a prompt and concentrated movement to break the center, near Chickasaw Creek, at the head of a bayou of the same name; and once in position to turn to the right (Vicksburg), or left (Drumgould's Bluff), according to information then obtained. I supposed their organized forces to amount to about fifteen thousand, which could be reenforced at the rate of about four thousand a day, provided General Grant did not occupy all the attention of Pemberton's forces at Grenada, or Rosecrans those of Bragg in Tennessee. Not one word could I hear from General Grant, who was supposed to be pushing south, or of General Banks, supposed to be ascending the Mississippi. Time being every thing to us, I determined to assault the hills in front of Morgan on the morning of the 29th; Morgan's division to carry the position of the hills, Steele's division to support him and hold the county road. I had placed General A. J. Smith in command of his own division (First) and
Chickasaw Creek (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
of the 28th. The enemy's right was a series of batteries or forts, seven miles above us on the Yazoo, at the first bluff, near Snyder's house, called Drumgould's Bluff; his left, the fortified city of Vicksburg; and his line connecting these was near fourteen miles in extent, and was a natural fortification, strengthened by a year's labor of thousands of negroes, directed by educated and skilled officers. My plan was by a prompt and concentrated movement to break the center, near Chickasaw Creek, at the head of a bayou of the same name; and once in position to turn to the right (Vicksburg), or left (Drumgould's Bluff), according to information then obtained. I supposed their organized forces to amount to about fifteen thousand, which could be reenforced at the rate of about four thousand a day, provided General Grant did not occupy all the attention of Pemberton's forces at Grenada, or Rosecrans those of Bragg in Tennessee. Not one word could I hear from General Grant, who wa
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
gan's troops crossed the bayou safely, but took to cover behind the bank, and could not be moved forward. Frank Blair's brigade, of Steele's division, in support, also crossed the bayou, passed over the space of level ground to the foot of the hills; but, being unsupported by Morgan, and meeting a very severe cross-fire of artillery, was staggered, and gradually fell back, leaving about five hundred men behind wounded and prisoners, among them Colonel Thomas Fletcher, afterward Governor of Missouri. Thayer's brigade, of Steele's division, took a wrong direction, and did not cross the bayou at all, nor did General Morgan cross in person. This attack failed, and I have always felt that it was due to the failure of General G. W. Morgan to obey his orders, or to fulfill his promise made in person. Had he used with skill and boldness one of his brigades, in addition to that of Blair's, he could have made a lodgment on the bluff, which would have opened the door for our whole force to fo
Chickasaw Bayou (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Chapter 5: Chickasaw Bayou plunging an Army through deep swamps against impregnable bk upon Vicksburg from the Yazoo River and Chickasaw Bayou in December, 1862, was under the sole dirover-looking the swamps through which ran Chickasaw Bayou. To flounder through this boggy low landower, but too deep to be forded, known as Chickasaw Bayou. All the island was densely wooded, exce, and a series of old cotton-fields along Chickasaw Bayou. There was a road from Johnson's plantat Morgan was to move to his left to reach Chickasaw Bayou, and to follow it toward the bluff; aboutmith. Steele was on Morgan's left across Chickasaw Bayou, and M. L. Smith on Morgan's right. We m there, and to return to the west side of Chickasaw Bayou in support of General Morgan's left. He four columns: Steele's above the mouth of Chickasaw Bayou; Morgan, with Blair's brigade of Steele'sin the Memoirs, concerning the failure at Chickasaw Bayou, than is contained in this report of Sher[4 more...]
Oxford (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ver expedition. To this Halleck replied: War Department, Washington, December 9, 1862. Major-General Grant, Oxford, Miss. * * * * The President may insist upon designating a separate commander, if not, assign such officers as you may derman had no connection with his failure: War Department, Washington, December 18, 1862. Major-General Grant, Oxford, Miss. * * * * It is the wish of the President that General McClernand's corps shall constitute a part of the river expedpear from the first paragraph of that order: headquarters Thirteenth Army Corps, Department of the Tennessee, Oxford, Miss., December 8, 1862. Major-Gen. W. T. Sherman, commanding Right Wing Army in the Field, present. General: You will mp, Milliken's Bend, La., January 3, 1863. Colonel J. H. Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant-General to Major-General Grant, Oxford, Miss., at last reliable accounts. Sir: * * * * As soon as we reached the point of debarkation DeCourcey's, Stuart's, an
Friar's Point (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
wn the river to the vicinity of Vicksburg, and with the cooperation of the gun-boat fleet under command of Flag-Officer Porter, proceed to the reduction of that place in such manner as circumstances and your own judgment may dictate. * * * * U. S. Grant, Major-General. On the same day Grant telegraphed to Halleck: General Sherman will command the expedition down the Mississippi. He will have a force of about forty thousand men. On the 22d of December this army rendezvoused at Friar's Point, ready to move up the Yazoo River to the rear of Vicksburg., On the 27th, the four divisions, Steele's, M. L. Smith's, Morgan's, and A. J. Smith's, aggregating over forty-two thousand men, were landed in front of the bluffs over-looking the swamps through which ran Chickasaw Bayou. To flounder through this boggy low land, cross the bayou, and storm the heights beyond, was the task Sherman laid out for his army. It was his first attempt to command more than a division in action, and he
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