. Historic towns of the Southern States. sfar north as Port Hudson. A campaign, sup-ported by the fleet, was undertaken on the eastside of the river. The Federal forces movedfrom the Yazoo River along the banks of theChickasaw Bayou with a view of gaining afoothold on the bluffs above the city. Abattle, stubbornly contested, was fought, andresulted in the defeat and repulse of the Unionforces. It demonstrated the impracticabilityof capturing the city by attacking the armyentrenched on the bluffs. 442 Vicksburg The following- year a much larger army wasconvoyed down the river by a Heet of gunbo
. Historic towns of the Southern States. sfar north as Port Hudson. A campaign, sup-ported by the fleet, was undertaken on the eastside of the river. The Federal forces movedfrom the Yazoo River along the banks of theChickasaw Bayou with a view of gaining afoothold on the bluffs above the city. Abattle, stubbornly contested, was fought, andresulted in the defeat and repulse of the Unionforces. It demonstrated the impracticabilityof capturing the city by attacking the armyentrenched on the bluffs. 442 Vicksburg The following- year a much larger army wasconvoyed down the river by a Heet of gunboats, and landedat Millikensbend, sixteenor seventeenmiles abovethe city, onthe west bankof the tentativeand unsuc-cessful effort\\ as madeby GeneralGrant to di-vert the riveracross the pe-ninsula by cut-tinor a canal,so as to passhis vessels ofwar and trans-ports below out of reach of the batteries onthe bluffs. Meantime a furious and incessantcannonade was kept up between the gunboatsand shore batteries. Finally a large part of. PORTRAIT OF GENERAL U. S. GRANT. Vicksburg 443 his fleet, under cover of the darkness of night,succeeded in passing the batteries, with theloss of one vessel and serious damage to movement on the water, followed by themarching of the army down the west bank,unmistakably indicated to General Pemberton,Confederate commandant, the plan and pur-pose of the campaign. He promptly withdrewthe most of his army from the breastworks,crossed the Big Black River, and so disposedhis men as to retard or arrest altogether themarch of General Grant. General Pember-tons plan was to form a junction with GeneralJohnston, who was on his way to take partin the defence of Vicksburg. General Grantsucceeded in interposing his army betweenJohnston and Pemberton, gave battle to John-ston at Jackson, and obliged him to fall backnorthward to Canton. Heavy and obstinatebattles were fought at Bakers Creek, ChampionHills and at Big Black. Pemberton, failing tOuni
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