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a point two or three hundred yards further up the river, where the current impinges more strongly against the shore. It was hoped by the additional flow of water thus secured, and by the use of dredging-machines, The following correspondence contains the only suggestion made by General Halleck to Grant during this portion of the Vicksburg campaign: February 18. Cannot dredge-boats be used with advantage in the canal? There are four lying idle at Louisville, belonging to Barton, Robinson & Co., contractors. H. W. Halleck, General-in-chief. February 17. We have one dredging-machine here, and another ordered. More than two could not be advantageously used. U. S. Grant, Major-General. to widen and deepen the main canal. The design was, to allow a passage for vessels with a breadth of beam of sixty feet, and a draught of eight or nine. The troops who were engaged for two months on the canal, were encamped immediately on its west bank, and protected from possible in
sburg, February 9, 1863. The continuous rise in the river has kept the army busy to keep out of the water, and much retarded work on the canal. I hope to be able to say something definite, in a day or so, of the practicability of the other routes mentioned in previous dispatches. General Halleck to General Grant.—(telegram.) Washington, D. C., February 13, 1863. Cannot dredge-boats be used with advantage in the canal? There are four lying idle at Louisville, belonging to Barton, Robinson & Co., canal contractors. General Grant to General Halleck.—(telegram.) Young's point, La., February 17, 1863. We have one dredging-machine here, and another ordered. More than two could not be advantageously used. General Grant to General Halleck.—(letter.) before Vicksburg, February 18, 1863. The work upon the canal here is progressing as well as possible, with the excessively bad weather and high water we have had to contend against. Most of the time that troops could be<