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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
afar in search of those the country might supply. A thousand wagons followed the army: they carried twenty days provisions. The baggage and tents had been omitted. Sherman himself had nothing more than a blanket to wrap himself in near the bivouac-fires when he did not find, to shelter himself, some abandoned house spared by his soldiers. The army marched out of Vicksburg in two columns. Sherman had taken to the left with the Sixteenth corps, which had reached Vicksburg about the 27th of January: he crossed the Big Black River on a boat-bridge at Messinger's Ferry. McPherson, to the right, was leading the Seventeenth corps, and crossed the river on a temporary bridge near that of the railroad, the scene of a bloody combat the year before. The weather was beautiful and dry, the roads good, and the soldiers were marching with animation. Informed of their approach, General S. D. Lee, whose cavalry was en échelon all around Vicksburg, forming a large segment of a circle, collect