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Ouachita (United States) (search for this): chapter 23
In the mean time General Grant had employed others of his now redundant troops in preparing another way to reach the vitals of the Vicksburg defenses. It was by cutting a channel from the western shore of the Mississippi, forty or fifty miles above Vicksburg, across a narrow neck of land into Lake Providence, from which there was a continuous water communication to the great river, far below the city to be assailed, through bayous Baxter and Macon, and the Tensas River, as also into the Washita and Red rivers. This would be a long and tedious way by which to reach the Mississippi, and the chief object to be gained in opening it was the establishment of a communication with General Banks, in command of the Department of the Gulf, to whom had been assigned the duty of reducing Port Hudson, below. Another side cut was attempted from Milliken's Bend into bayous that connected with the eastern branch of the Tensas, and so through other bayous with the Mississippi, near New Carthage.
Port Gibson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
crosses the Mississippi, 603. battle near Port Gibson, 604. March of the Nationals toward Jackso(half-way between Grand Gulf and Rodney) to Port Gibson or the Bayou. Pierre, in rear of Grand Guld, was landed, it was pushed forward toward Port Gibson with three days rations, followed by the Seon to the parting of roads, four miles from Port Gibson, each running along a ridge with deep holloessed the foe on its front steadily back to Port Gibson, while the latter was unable to move forwar afternoon, with heavy loss, and pursued to Port Gibson. Night coming on, the Nationals halted andederates there, flanked by the Nationals at Port Gibson, had joined with the defeated troops in theng re-enforcements from the Confederates at Port Gibson. Grant, as we have observed, had expecte Yankees had been whipped at Grand Gulf and Port Gibson, and were falling back to seek the protectieneral John Bowen, who had been driven from Port Gibson, led his center, and General Carter L. Stev
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
ts were too close together to allow much delay. At length firing commenced, and at eleven o'clock a battle had fairly begun. Hovey's division, composed of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin troops, was bearing the brunt. His first brigade, mostly Indiana troops, under General McGinnis, opened the battle gallantly. The ConfederaIndiana troops, under General McGinnis, opened the battle gallantly. The Confederates brought two batteries of four guns each to bear upon them from a ridge. One of these was charged upon and captured by the Eleventh Indiana This was the famous regiment of Zouaves, first organized by Colonel (afterward Major-General) Lewis Wallace. See page 517, volume I. and Twenty-ninth Wisconsin, and the other by the Forled was General Loyd Tighlman, who was captured at Fort Henry the previous year. He was killed by a shell from one of the guns of the Chicago Mercantile battery. Indiana was more largely represented in the desperate battle of Champion Hills than any other State. The Twenty-fourth Iowa was called the Methodist regiment, its prin
Yazoo City (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Vicksburg, 584. digging of the Canal, 585. another Yazoo expedition, 586. attack on Fort Pemberton the expedition a failure, 58t. a Third Yazoo expedition Porter's gun-boats in peril expedition abandoned, 588. raidiver, 612. Vicksburg invested Porter again on the. Yazoo, 613. position of the National troops around Vicksb See page 527. Milliken's Bend, Lake Providence, the Yazoo Pass, and Steele's Bayou. All of these routes were rivers, and so into the Yazoo, or River of Death, Yazoo is the Choctaw word for River of Death. This streamand so into the Yazoo, between Haines's Bluff and Yazoo City, of sufficient depth for the lighter iron-clads. n detail of the naval and military operations in the Yazoo region, during a part of the winter and early springe sent Lieutenant Walker, with five gun-boats, to Yazoo City. Walker found the navy, yard and vessels in flamker burned, Among the vessels on the stocks at Yazoo City was the Republic, a ram three hundred and ten fee
Baton Rouge (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
of December he sent General Cuvier Grover with ten thousand men to reoccupy Baton Rouge, preparatory to an advance on Port Hudson. This was done without serious op and General Banks concentrated his forces (about twelve thousand strong) at Baton Rouge, for operations in conjunction with Admiral Farragut, then on the Lower Misshose garrison was reported to be sixteen thousand effective men, returned to Baton Rouge; not, however, with the intention of abandoning the enterprise. Banks nowg day. May 24, 1863. At the same time General C. C. Augur, marching up from Baton Rouge, invested it on the south with three thousand five hundred men. Here we w with Grierson, wearied and worn, and their horses almost exhausted, entered Baton Rouge, in the midst of the plaudits of Banks's troops stationed there. Griersonain the main body. During the twenty-eight hours preceding their arrival at Baton Rouge, the whole body had traveled seventy-six miles, engaged in four skirmishes,
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
posite Vicksburg, called De Soto. The river was full, and the peninsula was partially submerged when the sketch was made. the fortification from which this view was taken was named battery Castle, because it was on the site of a fine castellated building, the property and residence of Armistead Burwell, a leading lawyer of Vicksburg, who, on account of his stanch patriotism in adhering to his Government, was driven from his house by the traitors of Mississippi. He remained an exile at St. Louis until after the capture of the city by the Nationals. After that event, and when Grant had a new line of fortifications constructed for the defense of the post, Mr. Burwell's house was demolished to make room for a battery. The writer met this unselfish loyalist at the Headquarters of General T. J. Wood, in April, 1866, and was deeply impressed by the purity and zeal of his devotion to his country. Notwithstanding he had been ruined pecuniarily by the war, he refused to apply to the Gov
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 23
th a part of Emory's division, under Colonel Ingraham, as a support. So close was the pursuit, that Taylor could not get five transports, laden with commissary stores and ammunition at New Liberia, out of harm's way, and these, with an incomplete iron-clad gun-boat, were destroyed. Emory came up with Taylor at Vermilion Bayou on the 17th. The latter was driven after a sharp contest, burning the bridges behind him; and on the 20th Banks entered Opelousas in triumph, and sent cavalry to Washington, six miles farther on. During this retreat the Queen of the West, which, as we have seen, was captured in the Red River by the Confederates, See page 589. and had come down the Atchafalaya to Lake Chestimachee, was assailed by the National gun-boats and destroyed, and her crew were made prisoners of war. And on the day when Banks entered Opelousas, April 20, 1863. the gun-boats, under Lieutenant-commanding A. P. Cooke, captured Butte à la Rose, with its garrison of sixty men, two heavy
Clinton (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
rd to Greensburg, in Louisiana, they marched rapidly westward on the Osyka and Clinton road to Clinton, fighting Confederates that lay in ambush at Amite River, and Clinton, fighting Confederates that lay in ambush at Amite River, and losing Lieutenant Colonel Blackburn, of the Seventh Illinois, who was mortally wounded. Benjamin H. Grierson. The 2d of May was the last day of the great raid. in my rear. On the morning of the 13th, May, 1863. McPherson pushed on to Clinton, which he entered unopposed at two o'clock in the afternoon, and began tearingidge over the Big Black River. McPherson was directed to retrace his steps to Clinton the next morning, May 15, 1863. and McClernand's scattered divisions One division of McClernand's troops was then in Clinton, another at Mississippi Springs, a third at Raymond, and a fourth, with Blair's division of Sherman's corps, with suggesting, not ordering, he afterward said, a combined attack on McPherson at Clinton, when Pemberton called a council, and, pursuant to its decision, prepared to a
Arizona (Arizona, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
them until he reached Fort Bisland and his other works near Pattersonville, where he made a stand. On the same day Banks sent General Grover with his division, on transports and four gun-boats, These were the Calhoun, Clifton, Estrella, and Arizona. up the Atchafalaya and Lake Chestimachee to Irish Bend, a short distance from Franklin, and on the flank of the Confederates, with the intention of gaining their rear and cutting off their retreat, should they be driven from Fort Bisland. It wpril 20, 1863. the gun-boats, under Lieutenant-commanding A. P. Cooke, captured Butte à la Rose, with its garrison of sixty men, two heavy guns, and a large quantity of ammunition, and opened the way through the Atchafalaya to the Red River, the Arizona passing through and reaching Admiral Farragut above Port Hudson, on the 2d of May. On the 22d of April Banks moved on from Opelousas toward Alexandria, General William Dwight, of Grover's division, with detachments of cavalry and artillery, l
Bayou Macon (United States) (search for this): chapter 23
in-Chief that the canal project was a failure. In the mean time General Grant had employed others of his now redundant troops in preparing another way to reach the vitals of the Vicksburg defenses. It was by cutting a channel from the western shore of the Mississippi, forty or fifty miles above Vicksburg, across a narrow neck of land into Lake Providence, from which there was a continuous water communication to the great river, far below the city to be assailed, through bayous Baxter and Macon, and the Tensas River, as also into the Washita and Red rivers. This would be a long and tedious way by which to reach the Mississippi, and the chief object to be gained in opening it was the establishment of a communication with General Banks, in command of the Department of the Gulf, to whom had been assigned the duty of reducing Port Hudson, below. Another side cut was attempted from Milliken's Bend into bayous that connected with the eastern branch of the Tensas, and so through other b
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