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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)
d), 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, where they terminate in Haines's Bluff. In the passing rear of the city the ground is high and broken, falling off gradually toward t