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Arkansas, the,
A Confederate ram, employed chiefly on the Yazoo River, above Vicksburg.
Farragut sent three armored vessels about the middle of July, 1862, to attack her. Six miles up the stream they found and assailed her; but she repulsed the attack, and took shelter under the batteries at Vicksburg.
Another attempt to capture her was made on July 22 by the Essex (Captain Porter) and the Queen of the West.
Again the attempt was unsuccessful.
After the repulse of the Confederates at Baton Rouge, early in August, Porter, with the Essex and two other gunboats, went in search of the Arkansas, and found her 5 miles above that city.
A sharp engagement ensued.
the Arkansas became unmanageable, when her crew ran her against the river-bank, set her on fire, and she was blown up.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chickasaw Bayou , battle of (search)
Chickasaw Bayou, battle of
When Gen. W. T. Sherman came down from Memphis to engage in the siege of Vicksburg, late in 1862, with about 20,000 men and some heavy siege guns, he was joined by troops from Helena, Ark., and was met by a gunboat fleet, under Admiral Porter, at the mouth of the Yazoo River, just above the city (Dec. 25). The two commanders arranged a plan for attacking Vicksburg in the rear.
They went up the Yazoo to capture some batteries at Chickasaw Bayou and other points.
The Yazoo sweeps round in a great bend within a few miles of Vicksburg.
The range of hills on which Vicksburg stands extends to the Yazoo, about 12 miles above the city, where they terminate in Haines's Bluff.
There is a deep natural ditch extending from the Yazoo below Haines's Bluff to the Mississippi, called Chickasaw Bayou, passing near the bluffs, which were fortified, and along their bases were rifle-pits for sharp-shooters.
This bayou lay in the path of Sherman's march up the bluf
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Haines's Bluff.
At this point on the Yazoo River there were stirring military events preparatory to the siege of Vicksburg. General Sherman, with the 15th Corps, had been operating in the Yazoo region, and when Grant determined to change his base of supplies to Grand Gulf, below Vicksburg, Sherman was ordered to make a feint against Haines's Bluff, which the Nationals had been unable to pass.
On the morning of April 29, 1863, he proceeded from Milliken's Bend, with Blair's division, in ten steamboats, and armored and other gunboats, and went up the Yazoo.
On the morning of May 6 the armored gunboats assailed the fortifications at Haines's Bluff, and in the evening Blair's troops were landed, as if with the intention of making an attack.
The bombardment was kept up until dark, when the troops were quietly re-embarked.
The assault and menace were repeated the next (lay, when Sherman received an order from Grant to hasten with his troops down the west side of the Mississippi an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ramsay , Francis Munroe 1835 - (search)
Ramsay, Francis Munroe 1835-
Naval officer; born in Washington, April 5, 1835; joined the navy Oct. 5, 1850; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1856; served through the Civil War, taking part in actions at Haines's Bluff, Yazoo River, Milliken's Bend, on the Mississippi River, etc. He was appointed chief of the bureau of navigation in 1889; promoted rear-admiral in 1894; and retired on account of age in 1897.
In September, 1901, he was appointed a member of the Schley court of inquiry, in place of Rear-Admiral Howison, who had been challenged by Rear-Admiral Schley and released from service on the court.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Selfridge , Thomas Oliver 1804 - (search)
Tonikan Indians,
A stock of North American Indians belonging politically to the Chicasa Confederacy.
About 1700 there were three tribes living respectively in Avoyelles parish, La., at Tonica Bluffs, on the Mississippi River, and near the junction of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers.
The second of these tribes was noted for its friendship with the French colonists, and all of them were skilful warriors.
The Tonikans now living are located on the old Avoyelles reservation, near Marksville, La.