. History of the American Civil War . or His march south- t /-i it r\ i m .i ward at once ar- new supplies. Concluding that, with theConfederates superior to him in cavalry, andthe country full of hostile people, he could not rely safelyon the railroad, he determined to give up that line of at-tack, and move his whole army to Vicksburg down theMississippi River. Chap. LI.] CHICKASAW BAYOU. 321 Sherman, in the mean time, ignorant of what had trans-siierman reaches piped at Holly Springs and Oxford, hadthe Yazoo River. pUS]ie(j on an(^ landed, up the Yazoo River, and had made an attack at Chicka
. History of the American Civil War . or His march south- t /-i it r\ i m .i ward at once ar- new supplies. Concluding that, with theConfederates superior to him in cavalry, andthe country full of hostile people, he could not rely safelyon the railroad, he determined to give up that line of at-tack, and move his whole army to Vicksburg down theMississippi River. Chap. LI.] CHICKASAW BAYOU. 321 Sherman, in the mean time, ignorant of what had trans-siierman reaches piped at Holly Springs and Oxford, hadthe Yazoo River. pUS]ie(j on an(^ landed, up the Yazoo River, and had made an attack at Chickasaw Bayou, on thebluffs between Vicksburg and Hainess Bluff. The high range of land lying between the Big Black and the Yazoo is known as Walnut Hills. These are about two hundred feet above the average height of the river. The Mississippi impinges against them, making The topography a steep bluff at Vicksburg, and for about near vicksbmg. ^wo miles above and several below on the east bank; but all the ground on the west is h#>****«*tt*W* :!::iiiiiiiiii;;iv:iVj^:iiiiii:i,:i::::i fW THE CHICKASAW BAYOU. The present Yazoo leaves the hills at a point about twen-ty-three miles above its existing mouth, at a place knownas Hainess Bluff. That mouth is about ten miles aboveII.—X 322 CHICKASAW BAYOU. [ Vicksburg, so that an irregular triangle of alluvium liesbetween the Yazoo and the Walnut Hills. The Yazoo inold times evidently clung to these hills, and has left oldchannels or bayous of deep stagnant water or mud, andthe whole triangle is cut into every imaginable form bythese bayous. The present river and the old bayous areall leveed against high water, and the lands are very fer-tile. The levees vary in height from four to fourteen feet;their shape is the same as that of a military parapet; in-terior slope 45°, superior slope from twelve to fourteenfeet for a roadway, exterior slope about one in levees entered largely into the
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