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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)
eneral Washburne. On the llth of June General Herron arrived with his division from the Department of Missouri, and on the 14th two divisions of the Ninth corps came, under General Parke. N~Tow the investment of Vicksburg was made absolute, with Sherman's corps on the extreme right, McPherson's next, and extending to the railway, and Ord's (late McClernand's) on the left, the investment in that direction being made complete by the divisions of Herron and Lauman, the latter lying across Stout's Bayou, and touching the bluffs on the river. Parke's corps, and the divisions of Smith and Kimball, were sent to Haines's Bluff, where fortifications commanding the land side had been erected to confront any attempt that Johnston might make in that direction. Meanwhile Admiral Porter had made complete and ample arrangements for the most efficient co-operation on the river, and his skill and zeal were felt throughout the siege. While his heavier vessels and the mortars and great Parrott gu
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
the plateau in its widest extent, from north to south, for a distance of about six miles and a half; at the bottom of this valley flows a little stream called Stout's Bayou, which connects with Big Bayou a little above the gap that the latter stream has opened for itself in the bluff. North-east of Vicksburg is the culminating point of the plateau, forming the continuation of the heights which separate Stout's Bayou from Big Bayou. A ridge, running westward toward Vicksburg, becomes detached from it to form a junction with the summit of the cliffs which line the borders of the river below the town, thus encircling the whole of the small basin of Stout's Stout's Bayou. A deep ravine with steep banks which pours its stream into the very city of Vicksburg, and whose bottom is covered in certain places with an impenetrable thicket, separates at the north this first ridge from a second, which follows a parallel course as far as the river. They are connected, for a certain distance north-east