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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
nine hundred miles. At first, only a single division of troops, under Brigadier-General Quimby, was sent to the support of Ross; but, shortly afterwards, McPherson, ave Ross's force. If not, I shall feel restless for his fate until I know that Quimby has reached him. Had this plan succeeded, it would have left Greenwood betweene east bank, from which Vicksburg could be reached by dry land. Grant informed Quimby of Sherman's cooperation , and urged him to the support of Ross from the north,ermanded, Grant now intending to bring him to the lower end of the expedition. Quimby's orders, however, were not yet revoked. Porter pushed along with his unwielanwhile, Ross had withdrawn from before Fort Pemberton, and on his way back met Quimby, on the 22d of March, near the head of the Yazoo pass. Quimby being senior, deQuimby being senior, decided to return, and ascertain for himself the situation, but soon discovered that nothing could be done to remedy it; and, as soon as Grant learned the failure of th
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
in the ravines, Logan on the main Jackson road, and Quimby in the valleys towards the south. The rebel works to give it confidence or momentum, it also failed. Quimby's troops moved out, but the enemy's line in their fght of the railroad, in and across the ravines, on Quimby's left. The gully nearest the railroad afforded ex's note, to McPherson, indorsing on it an order for Quimby's division (all of McPherson's corps then availables fronts. McPherson sent the dispatch and order to Quimby, who forwarded it at once to Colonel Boomer, commanant notified McClernand of these arrangements; that Quimby was to join him, and that McPherson and Sherman wouand: I have received your dispatch in regard to General Quimby's division and General McArthur's division. Asthe next morning, and it was nearly sundown, before Quimby's division reached McClernand; it had been on the fe of musketry was murderous. The third brigade, of Quimby's division, lost many men and some of its most valu
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
igh ridge of the Graveyard road was raised six or eight feet, so as to give as great a view of the ground inside and behind the enemy's works as possible. Its height, above the level of low water in the Mississippi, was over two hundred feet. Quimby's division retained its old position, after the assault of the 22d; it lay on the lower ground and in the ravines, on the left of Logan, and was employed erecting batteries and constructing rifle-trenches, along the ridges parallel to the enemy'during the night, and constructed a rifle-trench in his front, so as to annoy the rebels and keep them on the alert. From the broken nature of the ground, his trench could not be connected either with those on his left, in front of Carr, or with Quimby's, on the right. The rear communications, however, with both these divisions were good. They were by roads running along the reverse sides of the ridges, or across the back of the inferior ravines, so that a sortie upon any portion of the line
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter VII. (search)
the present, but it may be turned to practical use after effecting present plans. The same may be said of the canal across the point. I learn from Jackson (Mississippi) papers of the 14th, that one of our gunboats had run down to Grenada, and exchanged a few shots with the fort at that point. Further information from the enemy shows that several thousand troops have gone from Vicksburg up the Yazoo river. Besides four gunboats (one iron-clad), I have a division of troops there now, and Quimby's division in the pass, on their way down. One division from Memphis should also be on their way now. The great difficulty of getting small-class steamers, adapted to this service, has retarded movements by the way of Yazoo pass materially. To hem in the enemy on the Yazoo, Admiral Porter has gone into Deer creek by the way of Steele's bayou and Little Black bayou. From there he can get into Yazoo either by running up Deer creek to Rolling Fork, thence through the fork and down the Big
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter IX. (search)
z., that elevated, refined sense of honor, which, while guarding his own rights with jealous care, at all times renders justice to others. It little becomes Major-General McClernand to complain of want of cooperation on the part of other corps, in the assault on the enemy's works on the 22d ultimo, when twelve hundred and eighteen men of my command were placed hors du combat in their resolute and daring attempt to carry the positions assigned to them, and fully one-third of these from General Quimby's division, with the gallant and accomplished Colonel Boomer at their head, fell in front of his own lines, where they were left, after being sent two miles to support him, to sustain the whole brunt of the battle, from five P. M. until after dark, his own men being recalled. If General McClernand's assaulting columns were not immediately supported when they moved against the enemy's intrenchments, and few of the men succeeded in getting in, it most assuredly was his own fault, and no