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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)
withdrew. Darkness closed the struggle, when Sherman had lost nearly two thousand men, and his foes ended the battle of Chickasaw Bayou. General Sherman was loth to relinquish his effort againstGrant's retreat to Grand Junction had reached Sherman, and he resolved to return to Milliken's Bendazoo, when the arrival of General McClernand, Sherman's senior in rank, was announced. Jan. 2, 186y proceeded to Milliken's Bend. The title of Sherman's force was changed to that of the Army of thnd of General Morgan, and the other under General Sherman. before McClernand's arrival Sherman aSherman and Porter had agreed upon a plan for attacking Fort Hindman, or Arkansas post, on the left bank, ant twenty-five thousand men, under McClernand, Sherman, Morgan, Stewart, Steele, A. J. Smith, and Oshe guns of the fort having been silenced, and Sherman's right strengthened by the Twenty-third Wiscntrenchments on the east, while the troops of Sherman and Steele, which had stormed the works farth
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
hoped to have his troops reach the Yazoo safely, and make another attempt, in connection with the gun-boats, to carry Haines's Bluff and press on to Vicksburg, as Sherman had desired to do. It was reported that the Confederates were building gunboats and transports on those two chief affluents of the Yazoo, and the destruction of t men were assigned to the Yazoo expedition. It was led by General L. F. Ross, with a division of McClernand's corps, and the Twelfth and Seventeenth Missouri, of Sherman's corps; and with it went the large gun-boats Chillicothe and De Kalb, five smaller ones, and nearly twenty transports, under the control of Lieutenant Watson Smiere gathering in strength in that direction, to capture or destroy the fleet. Grant hastened back to Young's Point, and ordered a pioneer force and a division of Sherman's corps to push across Eagle Bend to Steele's Bayou (there only a mile from the Mississippi), to the relief of Porter, and to assist in the labors of the expediti