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D. W. Lindsey (search for this): chapter 5.65
kind between the lake and the bluffs. I determined to bridge the lake during the night, and at dawn on the 29th to send Lindsey and Sheldon with their brigades to seize and hold the swamp road and bluff in their front, while the brigades of Blair as without a scar. As he deserved, his death is mourned over to this day. The fire of Barton was promptly returned by Lindsey, but it was certain the bridge could not be completed while the enemy covered it with his guns. I now regarded an attheld two of Blair's regiments in support of my artillery, to be used as circumstances might require; and the brigades of Lindsey and Sheldon, and four regiments of Thayer's brigade of Steele's division were on my right. I was the senior officer in d not cross the bayou. It was my intention to make the assault with the brigades of Blair, Thayer, and De Courcy, while Lindsey and Sheldon, by threatening to bridge McNutt Lake, would prevent the enemy (under Barton) from reenforcing Lee. By some
Ulysses S. Grant (search for this): chapter 5.65
themselves with greater intrepidity. They were terribly repulsed but not beaten. There was neither rout nor panic, but our troops fell back slowly and angrily to our own line, halted, re-formed, and, if ordered, would again have rushed to the assault. As in all cases of repulse or defeat, contention and crimination have arisen as to the cause of the disaster. Sherman, in his report, Official Records, Vol. XVII., Part I., p. 610. and Grant, in his Memoirs, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (C. L. Webster & Co.), Vol. I., p. 437. give a satisfactory cause — the true one in my opinion — the impregnable position of the enemy. Sherman says, in his Memoirs, Vol. I., p. 292: Had he [General Morgan] used with skill and boldness one of his brigades, in addition to that of Blair, he could have made a lodgment on the bluff, which would have opened a door for our whole force to follow. The fact is that, beside the four regiments of Blair's brigade, the attacking forces incl
Lionel A. Sheldon (search for this): chapter 5.65
nder the heavy fire of the forts immediately in his front. That front was the immediate rear of the city. There was skirmishing on the 27th and 28th, and the enemy was driven back to his trenches. My division consisted of the brigades of Sheldon, Lindsey, and De Courcy. General Blair's brigade, as already stated, had been detached from Steele's division, and ordered to report to me. December 28th, I directed Blair, then on the north side of the bayou, to reconnoiter his front, and wi First Vicksburgh campaign or Chickasaw Bayou December 27 1862--January 3, 1863. the front of his brigade; and then passed to McNutt Lake,--an enlargement of Chickasaw Bayou,--and with Colonel D. W. Lindsey (whose brigade, with that of Colonel L. A. Sheldon, was in the woods bordering on the lake) reconnoitered his front. The enemy had relied on the depth and width of the lake as a sufficient defense, and at that place had neither troops nor works of any kind between the lake and the bluffs
S. D. Lee (search for this): chapter 5.65
the brigades of Vaughn, Barton, and Gregg from Grenada. Early on the 28th one of Vaughn's regiments was sent to reenforce Lee, and another to reenforce Barton; and thus Vaughn was left with only one regiment to protect the immediate rear of the citve 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 satis, while Lindsey and Sheldon, by threatening to bridge McNutt Lake, would prevent the enemy (under Barton) from reenforcing Lee. By some misunderstanding — a fortunate one, I think, as it turned out--four of Thayer's regiments diverged to the right, batteries, that of the latter commanded by Lieutenant Tarleton. About 10 o'clock a furious cannonade was opened on General Lee's lines. This ceased about 11 o'clock, when a whole brigade — about six thousand strong, understood to have been Brig
John A. McClernand (search for this): chapter 5.65
sippi, 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 emhat the enemy's attention having been drawn to the only two practicable points, it would prove too costly, and accordingly resolved to look elsewhere, below Haynes's Bluff or Blake's Plantation. While the blood was yet fresh upon the field, McClernand arrived, assumed command, and divided the army into two army corps, one commanded by Major-General W. T. Sherman, and the other by Brigadier-General George W. Morgan. General Pemberton's report of the defense, on the 29th, is as follows:
A. S. Marks (search for this): chapter 5.65
General Sherman to report to Morgan, and was sent by him across the bayou and over the road which De Courcy and Thayer afterward advanced to the assault, to occupy the ground between the bayou and Thompson's Lake. This was promptly done. The city of Vicksburg formed the extreme left of the enemy's position, and its immediate rear was the weakest point in the entire line of defense. On the 28th and 29th the city was occupied and defended solely by the 27th Louisiana regiment, under Colonel Marks, and by the batteries commanding the Mississippi; and on the 29th there was but a single regiment, under General Vaughn, between the city and the mound, sand-bar, or bluff, as it was differently called, four miles in rear of Vicksburg. In the immediate rear of the city there were redans and redoubts connected by rifle-pits; but on the 28th and 29th these were empty, every soldier and every gun having been withdrawn and sent to the defense of the swamp, or county road. In the origin
John F. Courcy (search for this): chapter 5.65
re as anywhere Lieutenant-General S. D. Lee, C. S. A. From a photograph. else. I told him to say to General Sherman that I would order the assault; that we might lose 5000 men, but that his entire army could not carry the enemy's position in my front; that the larger the force sent to the assault, the greater would be the number slaughtered. I sent orders to Blair and De Courcy to form their brigades, and a request to Steele to send me another brigade for the assault. Just then Colonel De Courcy, who was an officer of skill and experience, approached and said: General, do I understand that you are about to order an assault? . To which I replied, Yes; form your brigade! With an air of respectful protest he said: My poor brigade! Your order will be obeyed, General. Blair was between the bayou and Thompson's Lake. The bayou was on his right; but at a short distance in advance it abruptly turned to the left, in his front. The brigade of De Courcy was massed from the abatis
Dabney H. Maury (search for this): chapter 5.65
did not refer to the matter in his report; but Thayer says in his: I found myself within the enemy's works, with one regiment. I then went back to the intrenchments, where I had seen, as we went over, a regiment of our troops lying in the ditch, entirely protected from the rebel fire. I ordered and begged them, but without effect, to come forward and support my regiment, which was now warmly engaged. I do not know what regiment it was. (The italics are mine.--G. W. M.) Major-General Dabney H. Maury, C. S. A. From a photograph. But on August 30th, 1887, twenty-four years and eight months after the date of his report, in a letter to me, Thayer says: De Courcy and his brigade on that day made no assault whatever, unless against the outside rifle-pits, and were not repulsed. They got into the enemy's rifle-pits, and there remained. That Thayer and the 4th Iowa behaved gallantly is certain; that had his other regiments been with him they would have borne themselves
Thomas F. Vaughn (search for this): chapter 5.65
hed Vicksburg in person, before Sherman had arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo. The strong brigades of Barton, Gregg, and Vaughn were promptly transferred from Grenada to Vicksburg, and formed the enemy's sole defense between Vicksburg and McNutt Lakolonel Marks, and by the batteries commanding the Mississippi; and on the 29th there was but a single regiment, under General Vaughn, between the city and the mound, sand-bar, or bluff, as it was differently called, four miles in rear of Vicksburg. Lee, who had had the command of the entire line from Vicksburg to Snyder's Mills prior to the arrival of the brigades of Vaughn, Barton, and Gregg from Grenada. Early on the 28th one of Vaughn's regiments was sent to reenforce Lee, and another to reenforce Barton; and thus Vaughn was left with only one regiment to protect the immediate rear of the city, with the whole of A. J. Smith's division opposed to him. This division was ordered to make a feint, and, in doing so, lost two men. Had a real
William T. Sherman (search for this): chapter 5.65
f this order by Grant at Oxford, Mississippi, Sherman, who was then at Memphis, in telegraphic commenemy's defenses at that point, says: Had Sherman moved a little faster after landing, or made at gallant regiment lost fifty-seven men. Sherman's army was composed of four splendid divisione extreme haste to get away from Memphis, General Sherman had not provided trestles on which to lay range of the enemy's guns. For a time General Sherman made no reply. At length, pointing towar photograph. else. I told him to say to General Sherman that I would order the assault; that we mion — the impregnable position of the enemy. Sherman says, in his Memoirs, Vol. I., p. 292: Hts led by De Courcy and one by Thayer. General Sherman also says, in his Memoirs, that one bof December. In reply to my suggestion General Sherman said he did not like to ask for a truce, r the war. In his report of the battle General Sherman says: Official Records, Vol. XVII., P[22 more...]
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