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in his way.--N. O. Picayune, April 5, 1862. in generous profusion; but these were not the forces required to paralyze such commanders as Butler and Farragut. At length, April 15, 1862. the joyful tidings reached the former from the latter that his fleet was all over the bar, reloaded, and ready for action; and that he hoped to move up the river next day. Two days later, Gen. Butler, with his 8,000 troops, was at the mouth of the river. New Orleans, situated on the left bank of the Mississippi, 100 miles above its mouths, with the large sheet of water known as Lake Pontchartrain closely approaching it on the north, and the smaller Lake Borgne some 20 miles distant on the east, was by far the largest and most important city of the Confederacy, with a population of 170,000, and the greatest export trade, just prior to the war of any city in the world. Unable to perceive the wisdom of expatriating those magnificent feeders of its commerce, the Missouri, the Ohio, and the upper Mi
were received from Grant to desist from the feint and hurry the whole corps forthwith to Grand Gulf. Sending orders to the divisions of Steele and Tuttle to march southward at once, Sherman kept up the feint till after nightfall; then quietly dropped down the Yazoo to Young's Point; and next morning May 2. Blair's division moved up to Milliken's Bend, to remain there as a garrison till relieved by fresh troops from above; while Steele's and Tuttle's hurried down the west bank of the Mississippi to Hard Times, where they were ferried across, Many 6 and 7. and were pushed forward 18 miles next day, to Hankinson's Ferry. Grant's advance, under McClernand, first encountered the enemy May 1-2 A. M. when eight miles out from Bruinsburg; but the Rebels were not in force, and fell back unpursued till morning; when McClernand advanced, and, when approaching Port Gibson, was resisted with spirit by a Rebel force from Vicksburg, under Maj.-Gen. Bowen ; the country being broken int
or be reenforced by, Grant above. And Grant, on hearing all the facts as set forth by Gen. Dwight, heartily concurred in this decision; offering to send Banks 5,000 men so soon as he could spare them. Gen. Banks, directly after Dwight's return to Alexandria, put May 14-15. his army in motion; sending all he had transportation for by water; the residue marching by land to Simmsport, where they were with difficulty ferried across the Atchafalaya, and moved down the right bank of the Mississippi till opposite Bayou Sara, where they crossed, Night of May 23. and, marching 15 miles next day, proceeded forthwith to invest Port Hudson from the north; while Gen. C. C. Augur, with 3,500 men from Baton Rouge, in like manner invested it on the south. Gen. Gardner, commanding at Port Hudson, sent Col. Miles to resist their junction behind his fastness by striking Augur on his march; but he was repulsed with a loss of 150 men; while our right wing above, under Gens. Weitzel, Grover,
ng, with his small force, moved 650 miles in 30 days, in entire ignorance of the position or fortunes of Wilson and his lieutenants, yet going whither and doing as he pleased; scarcely resisted at any town he chose to take. The fireeaters had disappeared; the survivors were heartily sick of War. Gen. Canby, commanding in New Orleans, was kept inactive throughout the Summer and Autumn of 1804, by the exacted return of the 16th corps from his department, to serve on either bank of the Mississippi above. His remaining corps — the 13th, Gen. Gordon Granger--participated, as we have seen, in the reduction of the forts at the mouth of Mobile bay. During the year, Gen. Dick Taylor crossed the Mississippi and assumed command of the Confederate forces in Alabama. At length, after the overthrow of Hood, in Tennessee, the 16th was returned to Gen.Canby; who now proceeded, in concert with Wilson's demonstration from the north on central Alabama, to attempt the reduction of Mobile and its
ses the Potomac, 564; marches on Chancellorsville, 566; at the battles of the Wilderness, 568 to 571; charges at Spottsylvania. 552; at Cold Harbor, 580 to 582; his Mine explosion, 591. Burns, Gen., repels Magruder's attack, 160. Bushrod, Gen., at Chickamauga, 422. Butler, Gen. Benjamin F., 73; expedition of, against New Orleans, 81 to 106; raises volunteers in New England, 81; expedition of, at Ship Island, 82-3; narrow escape of, from shipwreck, 83; arrives at the mouth of the Mississippi, 85; occupies New Orleans, 97; administration of, in, New Orleans, 98; 101; 106; his order No. 28,100; superseded by Gen. Banks, 105; returns to New York, 105; outlawed by ,Jeff. Davis, 105-6; his address to people of New Orleans, 106; he retains slaves as contraband of war, 238; in command( at Fortress Monroe, 574; menaces Petersburg and Richmond, 575; commands the first Fort Fisher expedition, 708; declines to assault Fort Fisher, 711; returns to the James, 711. Butterfield, Gen. D.