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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Political Intrigue — Buena Vista — movement against Vera Cruz-siege and capture of Vera Cruz (search)
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, The bayous West of the Mississippi-criticisms of the Northern press-running the batteries-loss of the Indianola-disposition of the troops (search)
The bayous West of the Mississippi-criticisms of the Northern press-running the batteries-loss of the Indianola-disposition of the troops
The original canal scheme was also abandoned on the 27th of March.
The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time.
At Milliken's Bend, and also at Young's Point, bayous or channels start, which connecting with other bayous passing Richmond, Louisiana, enter the Mississippi at Carthage twenty-five or thirty miles above Grand Gulf.
The Mississippi levee cuts the supply of water off from these bayous or channels, but all the rainfall behind the levee, at these points, is carried through these same channels to the river below.
In case of a crevasse in this vicinity, the water escaping would find its outlet through the same channels.
The dredges and laborers from the canal having been driven out by overflow and the enemy's batteries, I determined to op
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Sherman and Johnston -Johnston 's surrender to Sherman-capture of Mobile -Wilson 's expedition — capture of Jefferson Davis --General Thomas 's qualities-estimate of General Canby (search)