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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
near Vicksburg, 584. digging of the Canal, 585. another Yazoo expedition, 586. attack on Fort Pemberton the expedition a failure, 58t. a Third Yazoo expedition Porter's gun-boats in peril expellahatchee, when, just as it approached a sharp bend in the stream, near the little village of Greenwood, ten miles from its confluence with the Yallobusha, it encountered March 11, 1863. a strong fortification called Fort Pemberton, in command of Major-General W. W. Loring. Near it a raft; with a sunken steamboat, had been placed to obstruct the Tallahatchee. The fort consisted of a line of bn the morning of the 13th, its guns and those of both war-vessels opened simultaneously upon Fort Pemberton. The attack was kept up during the day, with considerable damage to the fort, but this. wan's corps, with some troops, who ranked Ross, and took command. He returned to the front of Fort Pemberton, and was about to assail it, when he received orders March 23. to return to the Mississippi