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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
him up, and would expect to find me at the Yazoo River, if not inside of Vicksburg. I confess, atof supply; then to proceed to the mouth of the Yazoo, and, after possessing ourselves of the latestns proceeded, on the 26th, to the mouth of the Yazoo, and up that river to Johnson's plantation, thn's plantation, immediately on the bank of the Yazoo, and a series of old cotton-fields along Chick, and quietly embarked on steamboats in the Yazoo River. The night of December 30th was ap pointedral McClernand had arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo in the steamboat Tigress, and that it was rumoe where it was, I ran down to the mouth of the Yazoo in a small tug-boat, and there found General Myou, Admiral Porter was equally busy in the Yazoo River, threatening the enemy's batteries at Haines Bend, about ten miles above the mouth of the Yazoo, Admiral Porter remaining with his gunboats atoat, the Black Hawk, lying in the mouth of the Yazoo. It must have been near midnight, and Admiral[1 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
rovidence; and third, at the Yazoo Pass, leading into the head-waters of the Yazoo River. Early in February the gunboats Indianola and Queen of the West ran the bathence with the gunboats now there by any route they may take to get into the Yazoo River, for the purpose of determining the feasibility of getting an army through tl's plantation, whence Admiral Porter proceeded to his post at the mouth of the Yazoo, leaving Captain Owen in command of the fleet. I reported the facts to Generalt the main river Mississippi, or get practicable access to the east bank of the Yazoo, in the rear of Vicksburg, by any of the passes; and we were all in the habit o using all the old boats I could get about Milliken's Bend and the mouth of the Yazoo, but taking only ten small regiments, selected out of Blair's division, to maked roads were constructed from our camps to the several landing-places on the Yazoo River, to which points our boats brought us ample supplies; so that we were in a s