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February 4th (search for this): chapter 7
incessant. Still Grant toiled on; four thousand soldiers were constantly employed on the work, besides negroes, who were comparatively of little use. On the 4th of February, however, he reported to Halleck that he had lost all faith in the practicability of the scheme. The canal, he said, is at right angles with the thread of ththing to gain a passage, avoiding Vicksburg. Grant gave orders for cutting a way from the Mississippi to Lake Providence and went himself to that place on the 4th of February, remaining there several days. This sheet of water is a portion of the old bed of the river, and lies about a mile west of the present channel. It is six men for some more, and also for six tugs to tow them. With them it would be easy to carry supplies to New Carthage, and any point south of that. As early as February 4th, Grant had written to Halleck about this route: There is no question but that this route is much more practicable than the present undertaking, and would have
February 17th (search for this): chapter 7
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 inundation by a levee; but the continued rise in the river made a lar
February 2nd (search for this): chapter 7
fifteen miles below. This route was used in former times, as a roundabout way of reaching the Yazoo river with small steamers and light trading craft; but, as the entire course lies in the alluvial region, the country between the two rivers was frequently overflowed; and, accordingly, the state of Mississippi constructed a large and strong levee at the entrance to the pass, so as to cut off all communication between its waters and those of the parent stream. This levee was cut on the 2d of February, and the water let in by the explosion of a mine planted at the mouth of the cut; and, in two days, the torrent carried away the levee so completely as to allow the largest steamers to pass through the crevasse into Moon lake, about a mile beyond. But in the mean time, the rebels had begun to make obstructions lower down, by felling huge trees into the pass. The forest was extremely luxuriant, and the rafts and entanglements thus formed were obstacles of the most formidable character,
February 18th (search for this): chapter 7
en the water rose so as to run through, there was no enlargement. Grant's engineers attempted to remedy this, by cutting a wing, from 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.
21st (search for this): chapter 7
turn the enemy's left. When Sherman returned, unsuccessful, from Steele's bayou, Grant consoled himself by saying that the expedition has at least pushed our troops into the heart of the granary from which the Vicksburg forces are now being fed. On the 11th, he announced: My force in a few days will be all concentrated; I expect to take Grand Gulf. On the 17th: I go to New Carthage to-night; if it is possible, I will occupy Grand Gulf in four days. On the 18th: I hope very soon to be able to report my possession of Grand Gulf. On the 21st: My force is abundant, with a foothold once attained, to do the work. On the 24th, to Sherman: I foresee great difficulties in our present position, but it will not do to let these retard any movements. Again: Once at Grand Gulf, I do not feel a doubt of success in the entire clearing out of the enemy from the banks of the river. Every effort will be exerted to get speedy possession of Grand Gulf, and from that point to open the Mississippi.
March 27th (search for this): chapter 7
overwhelming every barrier, and separating the northern and southern shores as effectually as if the Mississippi itself flowed between them. It swept far and wide over the interior, submerging the camps, and spreading into the bayous, even to the Tensas and lower Red. The troops were obliged to flee for their lives, horses were drowned, implements were broken and borne away by the current, and all the labor of many weeks was lost. Attempts were made to repair the damages, but on the 27th of March, Grant reported that all work except repairing the crevasses in the canal levee had been suspended for several days, the enemy having driven the dredges entirely out. The canal may be useful in passing boats through, at night, but nothing further. As he had foretold, the batteries erected on the hills below Vicksburg completely enfiladed the canal. The rebels declared that the Yankees had been as impious as the Titans, in their audacity, and as impotent, and hoped that in future they w
18th (search for this): chapter 7
there. On the 13th: It is not desirable that you should move in any direction from Grand Gulf, but remain under the protection of the gun. boats. The present plan, if not changed by the movements of the enemy, will be to hold Grand Gulf. On the 18th: I would still repeat former instructions, that possession be got of Grand Gulf at the earliest possible moment. Again: I will be over here in a few days again, and hope it will be my good fortune to find you in safe possession of Grand Gulf. burg forces are now being fed. On the 11th, he announced: My force in a few days will be all concentrated; I expect to take Grand Gulf. On the 17th: I go to New Carthage to-night; if it is possible, I will occupy Grand Gulf in four days. On the 18th: I hope very soon to be able to report my possession of Grand Gulf. On the 21st: My force is abundant, with a foothold once attained, to do the work. On the 24th, to Sherman: I foresee great difficulties in our present position, but it will not
March 20th (search for this): chapter 7
pilot-houses were swept away by the wilderness of boughs that reached down from above, and stretched out on either side. There was no dry land along the route as far as Deer creek, and all the troops had finally to be removed from the transports and conveyed on tugs and coal-barges, the way having become impassable to the steamers. The movement of the land forces was therefore extremely slow, and the naval vessels got some thirty miles in advance, near the Rolling Fork. Here, on the 20th of March, Porter was attacked by sharpshooters, to whom his heavy ordnance could render only ineffectual replies. The rebels had not only impeded his progress, by hewing heavy trees in his front, but begun doing the same in his rear. The labor of removing these artificial obstructions was prodigious; it was prosecuted by night as well as by day, and under artillery and musketry fire; and Porter finally sent back for Sherman to hurry up to his assistance. Sherman was then at the junction of t
17th (search for this): chapter 7
his confidence had never failed. On the 2d of April, he said to Halleck: In two weeks I expect to be able to collect all my forces and turn the enemy's left. When Sherman returned, unsuccessful, from Steele's bayou, Grant consoled himself by saying that the expedition has at least pushed our troops into the heart of the granary from which the Vicksburg forces are now being fed. On the 11th, he announced: My force in a few days will be all concentrated; I expect to take Grand Gulf. On the 17th: I go to New Carthage to-night; if it is possible, I will occupy Grand Gulf in four days. On the 18th: I hope very soon to be able to report my possession of Grand Gulf. On the 21st: My force is abundant, with a foothold once attained, to do the work. On the 24th, to Sherman: I foresee great difficulties in our present position, but it will not do to let these retard any movements. Again: Once at Grand Gulf, I do not feel a doubt of success in the entire clearing out of the enemy from the
March 22nd (search for this): chapter 7
were insignificant, when compared with those which it had been hoped to attain. The iron-clads had to back out of the stream into navigable water, as there was not room to turn, and, with unshipped rudders, rebounded from tree to tree. Sherman, on shore, protected them during this difficult and dangerous operation, and, on the 27th, he was back in his original camps opposite Vicksburg. Meanwhile, Ross had withdrawn from before Fort Pemberton, and on his way back met Quimby, on the 22d of March, near the head of the Yazoo pass. Quimby being senior, decided to return, and ascertain for himself the situation, but soon discovered that nothing could be done to remedy it; and, as soon as Grant learned the failure of the Steele's bayou expedition, he directed the concentration of all his forces at Milliken's bend. These various attempts and expeditions on both sides of the Mississippi, although unsuccessful in their main objects, were yet productive of beneficial results. The nat
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