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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 12 0 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 10 0 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 6 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 23: siege and capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. (search)
dy observed, was a member of General Legget's staff during the siege and at the time of the surrender. We visited together every place and object of interest in the city and along the lines, from below the railway, on the Warrenton road, to Chickasaw Bayou, and finding here and there Union people, who had suffered much in mind, body, and estate. The Shirley House. Among these was the family of Mr. Shirley, who was a leading lawyer of Vicksburg. His house was on the old Jackson road, ngallant Colonel (afterward General) Eaton, of the National army. At the time of our visit she was a young bride. From Mrs. Shirley's we rode to the Headquarters of General Grant, in the cane-brake, and then over the rough Walnut Hills to Chickasaw Bayou, passing on the way the house of Dr. Smith, who acted as guide to General S. D. Lee, in the fight with Sherman. He accompanied us to the theater of strife, and pointed out the various localities of interest connected with that conflict. Af
y at saved from famine, 3.154; arrival of Sherman at 3.159; battle of, 3.161-3.169; visit of the author to in 1866, 3.176. Cheat Mountain, region of held by Col. Milroy, 2.103. Cherokees, induced to join the Confederates, 1.476. Chicago, Republican convention at in 1860, 1.30; Democratic convention at in 1864, 3.447; platform, 3.449. Chickahominy, Army of the Potomac on the, 2.403. Chickamauga, battle of, 3.135-3.140; visit of the author to the battle-ground of, 3.178. Chickasaw Bayou, battle of; 2.577. Chicomicomico, unfortunate expedition to, 2.109. Christian Commission, organization of, 1.575; origin and history of, 3.610. Cincinnati, Democratic convention at in 1856, 1.21; loyal spirit of the people of. 1.351. Cincinnati Platform, 1.21. City Point, occupation of by Gen. Butler, 3.318. Clark, Daniel, resolutions of, in the Senate, 1.221. Clark, John B., expulsion of from Congress, 1.573. Clarkesville, capture of by Commodore Foote, 2.233.
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 24: Second attack on Vicksburg, etc. (search)
operations of Earl Van Dorn and Forrest. repulse of General Sherman near Chickasaw Bayou. attack on Haines' Bluff by the United States steamer Benton, etc., and des. General Sherman moved his transports to a point on the river called Chickasaw Bayou without the loss of a man from torpedoes or sharpshooters, his landing beimade a feint on Haines' Bluff as if to attack the works and then landed at Chickasaw Bayou. Owing to the late heavy rains he found the roads to Vicksburg heights al, no other course but to attack the enemy's works by the road leading from Chickasaw Bayou and attempt to reach the landing at the foot of the high hills overlookingswamps into dry land. But the enemy had not neglected the swamps around Chickasaw Bayou or the approaches to Vicksburg on that side. On the contrary they seemed world were liable to be upset in the face of such elements as prevailed at Chickasaw Bayou, when Sherman found himself in the swamp beneath the heights of Vicksburg.
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 26: siege of Vicksburg. (search)
eavy batteries on the hills and at the water front, with 42,000 men in garrison under a very clever general (Pemberton), and Gen. J. E. Johnston with 40,000 more troops at Jackson (the capital of Mississippi), within easy distance of the besieged — if those may be so called who had ten times as much freedom and a hundred times more dry land to travel about on, than the besiegers. There was no use attempting to attack the place on either flank. The attempt had been made by Sherman at Chickasaw Bayou without effect, and since then that point had been made doubly secure against invasion. The Federal Army could not cross the river below the town. for there were no transports on that side of the batteries, and it was then thought impossible to pass them. General Banks at one time received orders to march up to Vicksburg and assist Grant, and so envelop the city, but for some reason this movement was delayed from time to time, and the latter had to depend upon his own resources.
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 41: the Red River expedition, under Major-General N. P. Banks, assisted by the Navy under Rear-Admiral David D. Porter. (search)
once — this extended not only to the Navy but to the corps of General A. J. Smith as well. When Smith joined the expedition he had just finished a long march through the interior of the Confederacy, and his men were without proper clothing and other necessaries, and made a poor figure beside Banks' well-equipped troops; but when it came to actual warfare, they were famous fighters. They were men who had lain for months in the trenches at Vicksburg, had gone through the hardships of Chickasaw Bayou, had helped win Arkansas Post, etc., etc.; yet when Banks first saw these veterans, he exclaimed, What, in the name of Heaven, did Sherman send me these ragged guerillas for? At Mansfield he found these ragged guerillas saved the day and the honor of his army! We have no doubt that when Banks saw his fine army under General Franklin, and was told how easily those troops had put the Confederates along the route to flight, he felt that he could do very well without the corps of A. J.
s were fortified, is agreeably (to alligators) diversified by swamps, sloughs, lagoons, and bayous; and is in the main a profound mire, resting on quicksand. Chickasaw Bayou, connecting the two rivers, is its most salient feature; but much of it had been a cedar swamp, or boggy thicket, whereof so much as lay directly in front of hereon an instant and overwhelming superiority of numbers can be made to tell. And so it would, had not the bayous, lagoons, and swamps — but more especially Chickasaw bayou — so protected the entire Rebel front that there were but four points at which it could be reached from the Yazoo; and these were so covered and enfiladed by hward. During the ensuing night, the ground and obstacles in out front were carefully reconnoitered, and found even more difficult than rumor had made them. Chickasaw bayou was conclusively ascertained to be passable but at two points--one a narrow levee; the other a sand-bar — each completely commanded by the enemy's sharpshoote<
battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Shiloh, Tenn. 86 Kenesaw, Ga., June 19, 1864 1 Russell's House, Tenn. 2 Kenesaw, Ga., June 27, 1864 16 Chickasaw Bayou, Miss. 3 Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864 6 Arkansas Post, Ark. 1 Ezra Chapel, Ga. 6 Vicksburg, Miss., May 19, 1863 7 Atlanta, Ga., August 3, 1864 4 Vicksbur; in the Atlanta campaign, 1864, this division was commanded by General Morgan L. Smith; and, in the March to the Sea, by General Hazen. The regiment lost at Chickasaw Bayou, 2 killed and 4 wounded; at Vicksburg, First Assault, 4 killed and 22 wounded; at the Second Assault, 5 killed and 13 wounded; and, at the assault on Kenesaw a total of 218 out of 560 engaged. The regiment arrived at Helena, Ark., in July, 1862, remaining there five months and then embarking in December, 1862, for Chickasaw Bayou, where it was under fire. The spring of 1863 was passed in camp at Young's Point, on the Mississippi, where its ranks were sadly depleted by disease. The Ni
vania Hancock's Second 21 133 1 155 7th Rhode Island Sturgis's Ninth 11 132 15 158 28th Massachusetts Hancock's Second 14 124 20 158 Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro, N. C.             Dec. 14 17, 1862.             10th Connecticut Foster's ---------- 11 89 -- 100 45th Massachusetts Foster's ---------- 18 59 -- 77 9th New Jersey Foster's ---------- 5 86 4 95 103d Pennsylvania Peck's ---------- 16 53 -- 69 23d Massachusetts Foster's ---------- 12 55 -- 67 Chickasaw Bayou, Miss.             Dec. 27-29, 1862.             16th Ohio Morgan's ---------- 16 101 194 311 54th Indiana Morgan's ---------- 17 112 135 264 13th Illinois Steele's ---------- 27 107 39 173 31st Missouri Steele's ---------- 17 72 62 151 29th Missouri Steele's ---------- 19 70 61 150 58th Ohio Steele's ---------- 36 78 11 125 4th Iowa Steele's ---------- 7 105 -- 112 22d Kentucky Morgan's ---------- 9 72 26 107 6th Missouri Morgan's ---------- 1
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
ppi, ascended the Yazoo a few miles, and landed his troops on the southern shore on the 26th of December. Lieutenant-General Pemberton reported, the day after, that his lines had been attacked at four different points, and each attacking party handsomely repulsed. As his loss amounted to but five killed and fifteen wounded, these were probably reconnoissances rather than serious assaults. On the 29th, however, a real assault was made by a body of several thousand Federal troops, near Chickasaw Bayou, where Brigadier-General S. D. Lee commanded. That gallant soldier was successful in defeating the attempt with his brigade, inflicting a loss of eleven hundred upon the enemy, while his own was but a hundred and fifty. On the 2d of January General Sherman reembarked and ran up to Milliken's Bend. His fleet of transports disappeared soon after. Mississippi was thus apparently free from invasion, General Grant's forces having already reached the northern border of the State. T
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
sufficient force must also be left to defend the riverfront of the city, the approaches by Chickasaw Bayou, by Snyder's Mills, and Warrenton, against a coup de main. My effective aggregate did not ey of abandoning our defenses on the Yazoo at Snyder's Mills; that position, and the line of Chickasaw Bayou, were no longer tenable. All stores that could be transported were ordered to be sent into along the Yazoo River, from Haines's Bluff to the Mississippi, including the approaches by Chickasaw Bayou; Brigadier-General Moore's brigade, with the Mississippi State troops, under General Harrisat the railroad and by Bridgeport, and thus defend my vital positions at Snyder's Mills and Chickasaw Bayou, if I should find that the enemy was advancing in too heavy force against Edwards's Depot. nst Vicksburg. It was indispensable to maintain a sufficient force to hold Snyder's Mills, Chickasaw Bayou, the city front, and Warrenton — a line of over twenty miles in length. In addition to