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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)
hrough which one can successively reach the Washita, the Tensas, and the Red River, and thence strike the waters of the Mississippi. Among this chain of lakes, rivers, and bayous it was hoped to find a passage for the fleet, and whilst a portion of Sherman's troops were at work in Williams' channel, McPherson would land with a considerable detachment of his own corps near Lake Providence and open a trench in order to establish a connection with the river. He had gone to work on the 29th of January. But Porter, knowing how doubtful was the success of such an attempt, resolved at the same time to explore the network of the bayous which follow the left bank of the Mississippi toward the tributaries of the Yazoo—a network which had already been reconnoitred by Hovey's cavalry at the close of the year 1862. There was formerly a pass in this network of bayous frequented by small steamers plying between Memphis and Yazoo City. It was a bayou called the Yazoo Pass, from twenty to thir