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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
want of confidence in their general's ability. On the 24th a fleet of transports, bearing the united forces of Generals Grant and Sherman, descending the Mississippi from Memphis, appeared near Vicksburg. This army did not repeat the attack upon the place from the Yazoo, but landed on the west side of the river, and commenced the excavation of a canal through the point of land opposite the town. No military event worth mentioning occurred in either department in February. On the 5th of March Van Dorn's division was attacked, seven or eight miles south of Franklin, by the Federal garrison of that place, but repulsed the assailants, taking twenty-two hundred prisoners. Four or five days after this, however, this division was driven back to Columbia by the same troops largely reinforced; it escaped with difficulty, Duck River being considerably swollen. As there were no indications of intention on the part of the Federal commander in Tennessee to take the offensive soon, a