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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
om Mississippi in 1834, and since then had had a distinguished career as a naval officer. The enemy's fleet remained inactive for more than a week, during which time it was reinforced to ten gunboats, and Smith's command was increased by the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth Louisiana volunteers, five companies of Starke's cavalry, Ridley's battery of Withers' artillery, and four companies of the Sixth Mississippi battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Balfour. These troops were thrown forward toward Warrenton to resist a land attack. Later, two more Louisiana regiments arrived. On May 21st,Commander Lee gave formal notice of the necessity of removing women and children within twenty-four hours, as it will be impossible to attack the defenses without injuring or destroying the town, a proceeding which all the authorities of Vicksburg seem determined to require. I had hoped, Lee wrote, that the same spirit which induced the military authorities to retire from the city of New Orleans rather t
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
e Confederate navy. Grant's work on the canal was soon checkmated by Pemberton, who strengthened the fortifications at Warrenton. The expedition down the Coldwater and Tallahatchie, led by the powerful ironclad Chillicothe, was met by General Loancaster was blown up, During the passage, the Hartford, one of Farragut's boats, moved up and engaged the batteries at Warrenton, where General Barton was then in command. On April 4th, Grant notified the Washington authorities that he had decidhe Vicksburg batteries, while the troops would be conveyed by small boats and barges through the bayous in Louisiana to Warrenton or Grand Gulf, most probably the latter. He had put one division on Deer creek, just above Lake Washington, to cut ofboats and three empty transports, with the loss of one vessel. This detachment joined the three gunboats already below Warrenton. Pemberton now hastily recalled the brigades sent to Bragg, and notified the Trans-Mississippi commander that the enem