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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
Milliken's Bend,
A locality in Louisiana, attacked by Confederates under Gen. H. McCulloch; repulsed June 6, 1863, by Union forces (mostly colored), aided by the gunboats Choctaw and Lexington.
Union loss, killed and wounded, 404.
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.