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Buras (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
The assault on Chickasaw bluffs. by George W. Morgan, Brigadier-General, U. S. V.
President Lincoln early determined to obtain control of the Mississippi, in its entire length.
In pursuance of his plan, Island Number10 in the north and Forts Jackson and St. Philip in the south had been captured, and New Orleans occupied by our troops in the spring of 1862; and in the fall of that year General McClernand was assigned to the command of a river expedition against Vicksburg.
The day following the receipt of this order by Grant at Oxford, Mississippi, Sherman, who was then at Memphis, in telegraphic communication with Grant, commenced the embarkation of a column upon three grand flotillas, each bearing a division, to be joined by a fourth (Steele's) at Helena.
In his Memoirs,
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman.
By himself.
Vol. I., p. 285. (New York: D. Appleton & Co.) General Sherman says:
The preparations at Memphis were necessarily hasty in the extreme, but it wa
Helena, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
Yazoo River (United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
Chickasaw Bayou (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
Thompson Lake (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
Chickasaw (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
The assault on Chickasaw bluffs. by George W. Morgan, Brigadier-General, U. S. V.
President Lincoln early determined to obtain control of the Mississippi, in its entire length.
In pursuance of his plan, Island Number10 in the north and Forts Jackson and St. Philip in the south had been captured, and New Orleans occupied by ou gan L. Smith's division would have occupied Barton and Gregg at the mound, sand-bar, or dry lake, while the divisions of Morgan and Steele would have held Lee at Chickasaw.
In his Memoirs (I., 290), General Sherman says:
On reconnoitering the front in person, I became satisfied that General A. J. Smith could not cross the in ssary to make trestles or construct a raft.
The withdrawal of Steele from Sherman's left enabled the enemy to concentrate his right on the threatened point at Chickasaw.
As soon as he discovered that a bridge was being thrown over McNutt Lake, Barton occupied the woods bordering the lake on the bluff side.
Patterson had succee
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
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Island Number Ten (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65
The assault on Chickasaw bluffs. by George W. Morgan, Brigadier-General, U. S. V.
President Lincoln early determined to obtain control of the Mississippi, in its entire length.
In pursuance of his plan, Island Number10 in the north and Forts Jackson and St. Philip in the south had been captured, and New Orleans occupied by our troops in the spring of 1862; and in the fall of that year General McClernand was assigned to the command of a river expedition against Vicksburg.
The day following the receipt of this order by Grant at Oxford, Mississippi, Sherman, who was then at Memphis, in telegraphic communication with Grant, commenced the embarkation of a column upon three grand flotillas, each bearing a division, to be joined by a fourth (Steele's) at Helena.
In his Memoirs,
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman.
By himself.
Vol. I., p. 285. (New York: D. Appleton & Co.) General Sherman says:
The preparations at Memphis were necessarily hasty in the extreme, but it w
McNutt Lake (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.65