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Yazoo River fleet.

General Herron was sent, July 12, 1863, up the Yazoo River with a considerable force in lightdraught steamboats to destroy a Con-

Gunboats ascending the Yazoo River.

[474] federate fleet lying at Yazoo City. The transports were convoyed by the armored gunboat De Kalb. When they approached the town the garrison and vessels fled up the river, and were pursued. When the De Kalb was abreast the town she was sunk by the explosion of a torpedo. Herron's cavalry landed and pursued the vessels up the shore, destroying a greater portion of them. The remainder were sunk or burned by the Confederates. Herron captured 300 prisoners, six heavy guns, some small-arms, 800 horses, and 2,000 bales of cotton.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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