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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 18 2 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. (search)
f the ground. The former were buried and the latter were burned. Burning horses near Pittsburg Landing. The writer visited the battle-field of Shiloh late in April, 1866. At seven o'clock in the evening of the 23d, he left Meridian in Mississippi, for a journey of about two hundred miles on the Mobile and Ohio railway to Corinth, near the northern borders of the State. It was a cool moonlit night, and the topography of the country through which that railway passed, and over which Grierson had raided and Confederate troops and National prisoners of war had been conveyed, might be easily discerned. At twenty miles from Meridian it was a rolling prairie, with patches of forest here and there, and broad cotton-fields, stretching in every direction as far as the eye could comprehend. That character it maintained all the way to a more hilly country within thirty or forty miles of Corinth. With an interesting traveling companion (John Yerger, of Jackson, Mississippi), the night
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
n, General J. G. Lauman; First Brigade of Cavalry, Colonel B. H. Grierson; and — the forces in the District of Corinth, commrkable events on record. On the 17th of April, Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson, of the Sixth Illinois cavalry, left La Grange, the Seventh Illinois, who was mortally wounded. Benjamin H. Grierson. The 2d of May was the last day of the great rain on that day May 2, 1863. the troops that remained with Grierson, wearied and worn, and their horses almost exhausted, entdst of the plaudits of Banks's troops stationed there. Grierson had sent back the Second Iowa and about one hundred and stes of property valued at about six millions of dollars. Grierson's loss was twenty-seven men and a number of horses. Twenver, in which many of the horses were compelled to swim. Grierson's experience caused him to declare that the Confederacy w were soon repaired and made ready for active service. Grierson's raid. Informed by a negro that there was a good ro
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 23: siege and capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. (search)
essantly, day and night, and wore them down with fatigue and watching; while their provisions were becoming scarce, their medical, stores exhausted, and famine was threatened. They were completely hemmed in, and could receive nothing from the outer world but pure air, the sunlight, and the messengers of death from their foes. Banks's little army, then not exceeding twelve thousand effective men, was also closely hemmed in by a cordon of intensely hostile inhabitants; and since the raid of Grierson and his troop, Confederate cavalry had been concentrating in his rear, while General Taylor was gathering a new army in the regions of Louisiana, which the National troops had almost abandoned for the purpose of completing the task of opening the Mississippi. These might be joined by a force from Texas sufficient to capture New Orleans, while General Johnston might sweep down in the rear of Grant and fall upon Banks at. any moment. There was peril before and peril behind, and Banks felt