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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 5: (search)
to send boats to cooperate at the mouth of the Yazoo. Must I countermand the orders for this move?going down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Yazoo, could present a new base for Grant, from whicreated, Grant would follow him up, between the Yazoo and the Big Black rivers, to the Mississippi. oats, Sherman advanced on transports up the Yazoo river, which empties into the Mississippi, about d give us the substantial possession of the Yazoo river, and place us in communication with Generalr securing a lodgment on the ridge between the Yazoo and the Black rivers, from which to operate agst, as also to secure the navigation of the Yazoo river. The rumor of General Grant having fallen he felt the greatest anxiety to open up the Yazoo river, so that Grant might descend, and in order ies threaten and crowd. Upon leaving the Yazoo river, Sherman at once proposed to McClernand thaed to Young's point, opposite the mouth of the Yazoo. Grant wrote to Halleck, that he should requi[1 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
sudden bend below Young's point, opposite the mouth of the Yazoo, and turning towards the northeast, flows in that directionstroying the rebel steamboats and embryo gunboats on the Yazoo river, above Haine's bluff. The pass is a narrow and tortuoussed in former times, as a roundabout way of reaching the Yazoo river with small steamers and light trading craft; but, as the possible, in this direction. The idea was to reach the Yazoo river, above Haine's bluff, with the whole army; the distance larly across from the Tallahatchie to the north bank of the Yazoo. This work they called Fort Pemberton; it was defended by ng another of these labyrinthine routes, that leaves the Yazoo river below Haine's bluff, and, after innumerable windings, red in the rear of Greenwood. The route was by way of the Yazoo river to Steele's bayou, up the latter to Black bayou, throughe river; they thus saved the distance from the mouth of the Yazoo, and also the most difficult part of the navigation in the
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
esign is evidently to cross the Big Black, and pass down the peninsula between the Black and Yazoo rivers. We must beat them. Turn your troops immediately to Bolton; take all the trains with you. Slumn had struck the Benton road, three miles and a half from Vicksburg; he thus commanded the Yazoo river, interposing a superior force between the rebels in the town and their forts on the Yazoo. Hk the Walnut hills. As they rode together up the farthest height, where it looks down on the Yazoo river, and stood upon the very bluff from which Sherman had been repulsed six months before, the twdly, that his vision was dimmed for beholding success, until it lay revealed on the banks of the Yazoo; but then, with the magnanimity of a noble nature, he rejoiced in the victories whose laurels heght resting on the Mississippi river, within full view of the national fleet at the mouth of the Yazoo. Vicksburg itself was in plain sight, and nothing separated Sherman from the enemy but a space
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
road. Pemberton, as usual, called a council of war, to deliberate on the propriety of obedience. The council was composed of all his general officers, and their opinion was unanimous, that to withdraw from Vicksburg, with such morale and materiel, as to be of further service to the Confederacy, would be impossible. Before the council broke up, the guns of the advancing army were heard, as they opened on the works of Vicksburg, and reports came in, that Grant's troops were crossing the Yazoo river, above Haine's bluff. Pemberton at once replied to his commander: I have decided to hold Vicksburg as long as possible, with the firm hope that the government may yet be able to assist me in keeping this obstruction to the enemy's free navigation of the Mississippi. He was determined to be besieged. Pemberton was now, according to his own statement, able to bring into the trenches eighteen thousand five hundred muskets; from these, however, his reserves were to be deducted, which, h
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter VII. (search)
ospect of effecting a safe passage into the Yazoo river by the way of Yazoo pass. Admiral Porter wi-guns to warn the squadron in the mouth of the Yazoo of their presence. Last night Admiral Porter ent on the high ground on the east bank of the Yazoo. Once there, he will move down in transports sand troops have gone from Vicksburg up the Yazoo river. Besides four gunboats (one iron-clad), I troops on high ground, on the east bank of the Yazoo, from which we may act against Haine's bluff. d thus save the distance from the mouth of the Yazoo to, and also the most difficult part of the nadifficult navigation of the bayous from the Yazoo river, through Black bayou and Deer creek, causedron-clads and small steamers through to the Yazoo river, by the route lately tried by Admiral Porteon was to find a practicable passage to the Yazoo river, without passing the enemy's batteries at Hdistance. I sent a large force up between the Yazoo and Black rivers. Forage, beef, and bacon was[2 more...]