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ch 11. to a stand, just above the little village of Greenwood. Maj.-Gen. W. W. Loring had been dispatched Feb. 17. from Jackson to the Yazoo to bar any access by our forces to the valley of that river; and, having hastily studied its configuration and that of its chief tributaries, had chosen this as the point most favorable for resistance. The meeting streams approach within a mile, two or three moles above their junction; receding directly afterward. Loring, with his engineer, Maj. Meriwether, had obstructed the Tallahatchie by a raft, Loring reports that this reft had not been completed when our fleet arrived. The New York Tribune correspondent with the expedition says Lt. Smith's invincible lack of resolution and energy, and manifest indifference, retarded. by several days, the arrival of our vessels at this point, and was the true cause of our utterly needless failure. with an old steamboat sunk behind it, and thrown a line of defenses, composed of cotton-bales and e