. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FORWARDINCi Till: HAW HEC lU ITS—CAIRO In tlu fall (if lS(i2 all tlio availalilr river-steamors were busytransporting newly organized regiments from Cairo to Memphisto take part in the independent expedition against Vicksburg,which had been proposed by Major-General John A. McClernandand in command of which he had been placed by secret ordersfrom Lincoln and Stanton. Not even Crant was informed ofthis division of authority. McClernand. who was influential inthe AVcst. raiscil inIndiana. Illinois, andIowa some thirty reg-iments of v
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FORWARDINCi Till: HAW HEC lU ITS—CAIRO In tlu fall (if lS(i2 all tlio availalilr river-steamors were busytransporting newly organized regiments from Cairo to Memphisto take part in the independent expedition against Vicksburg,which had been proposed by Major-General John A. McClernandand in command of which he had been placed by secret ordersfrom Lincoln and Stanton. Not even Crant was informed ofthis division of authority. McClernand. who was influential inthe AVcst. raiscil inIndiana. Illinois, andIowa some thirty reg-iments of volunteers,two-thirds of whichhad been forwardedto Cairo and Memphisby November at the latter placeWere being drilled intoshape by Sherman andGrant supposed thatthey were the prom-ised rei-nforcements. for the expedition which they had planned together. On Decem-ber l2th Sherman was ready to move, and on the IDth trans-ports arrived at Memphis and the embarkation of the troopsbegan. Next day they mo\ed down the riser, convoyedby Porters fleet. On the 26th Sherman landed thirteenmiles up the Yazoo River and advanced to Chickasaw Bluffs,where on the 29th he assaulted the defenses of Vicksburg to the north. Thenews of the failureof Grants land expe-dition at Oxford hadreached McClernandinstead of Sherman,and as the latter gen-eral emerged from theswamps with his de-feated divisions,McClernand. on NewYears Day. met himat the mouth of tlieYazoo and supersededhim in command. FEDERAL TRANSPORTS ON THE MISSISSIPPI ONE SMOKESTACK DAMAGED BY CONFEDERATE FIBE FROM THE RIVER BANK
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