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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 130 0 Browse Search
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid 34 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 20 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 18 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 2 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 16 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 14 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.. You can also browse the collection for Chickasaw Bayou (Mississippi, United States) or search for Chickasaw Bayou (Mississippi, United States) in all documents.

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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 14 (search)
s were fortified, is agreeably (to alligators) diversified by swamps, sloughs, lagoons, and bayous; and is in the main a profound mire, resting on quicksand. Chickasaw Bayou, connecting the two rivers, is its most salient feature; but much of it had been a cedar swamp, or boggy thicket, whereof so much as lay directly in front of hereon an instant and overwhelming superiority of numbers can be made to tell. And so it would, had not the bayous, lagoons, and swamps — but more especially Chickasaw bayou — so protected the entire Rebel front that there were but four points at which it could be reached from the Yazoo; and these were so covered and enfiladed by hward. During the ensuing night, the ground and obstacles in out front were carefully reconnoitered, and found even more difficult than rumor had made them. Chickasaw bayou was conclusively ascertained to be passable but at two points--one a narrow levee; the other a sand-bar — each completely commanded by the enemy's sharpshoote<