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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
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
Raymond, battle of
Gen. W. T. Sherman was called from operations in the Yazoo region (see Haines's Bluff) by General Grant.
He marched down the western side of the Mississippi River, crossed at Hard Times, and on the following day (May 8, 1863) joined Grant on the Big Black River.
Grant had intended to send down troops to assist Banks in an attack upon Port Hudson, but circumstances compelled him to move forward from Grand Gulf and Port Gibson.
He made for the important railway connecting Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, with Vicksburg.
His army moved in parallel lines on the eastern side of the river.
These were led respectively by Generals McClernand and McPherson, and each was followed by portions of Sherman's corps.
When, on the morning of April 12, the van of each column was approaching the railway near Raymond, the county seat of Hinds county, the advance of McPherson's corps, under Logan, was attacked by about 6,000 Confederates under Generals Gregg and Walker.
Yazoo River fleet.
General Herron was sent, July 12, 1863, up the Yazoo River with a considerable force in lightdraught steamboats to destroy a Con-
Gunboats ascending the Yazoo River. federate fleet lying at Yazoo City.
The transports were convoyed by the armored gunboat De Kalb.
When they approached the town the garrison and vessels fled up the river, and were pursued.
When the De Kalb was abreast the town she was sunk by the explosion of a torpedo.
Herron's cavalry landed and pursued the vessels up the shore, destroying a greater portion of them.
The remainder were sunk or burned by the Confederates.
Herron captured 300 prisoners, six heavy guns, some small-arms, 800 horses, and 2,000 bales of cotton.