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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
distance above Vicksburg, after skirting the foot of the hills we have before mentioned. When Davis had appeared before Vicksburg, the Arkansas was in process of construction near that city; she was at once towed into the Yazoo River as far as Yazoo City, nearly fifty miles above the mouth of that river; a stockade was built to protect her against the Union gun-boats, and the Confederates continued the process of equipping her as secretly as possible. The Federal officers, however, were not ignorant of her existence. On the 15th of July, having learnt from some deserters the day before that she was at last completed, and had left Yazoo City, Davis despatched three gunboats, the Tyler, the Queen of the West and the Carondelet, which which were of lighter draught than Farragut's ships, to make a reconnaissance of the Yazoo. They had not to proceed very far to encounter the adversary they were in search of. The Arkansas, constructed nearly on the same model as the Merrimac, but much s
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—Tennessee. (search)
d Memphis, Corinth and the whole of Tennessee. It was necessary, therefore, to find and fight Pemberton. The latter had two lines of defence, formed by two rivers, the Tallahatchie and the Yallabusha, which after their junction take the name of Yazoo, already familiar to us, both of which cross the Mississippi Central Railroad between Grand Junction and Grenada. Pemberton had fortified the banks of the Tallahatchie, and was within reach of that stream with the greater portion of his army. liable to be stopped by the batteries of Haines' Bluff, and above this point the river presented an obstacle to Sherman which was the more formidable because it was defended, besides the Confederate army, by the vessels lying at the arsenal of Yazoo City. The Unionists were, therefore, obliged to land on the right bank of the Yazoo between Haines' Bluff and Vicksburg. It was at this place that they were waited for by their adversaries, who had neglected nothing to increase the difficulties w