. History of the Thirteenth Regiment, United States Infantry. sburg— Poem— Assault May 19— Ar-rest of Vallandigham. After the battle of Corinth and the oc-cupation of Memphis, the principle object ofmilitary operations was the opening of theMississippi river. The Confederates heldVicksburg and Port Hudson which effectu-ally blocked navigation for the Federals. Atthe North there was much discouragement,recruiting had come to a standstill, and thedraft was being enforced as a method of ob-taining men. In General Grants wordsThere was nothing left to be done but to GO FORWARD TO A DECISIVE VICTOR
. History of the Thirteenth Regiment, United States Infantry. sburg— Poem— Assault May 19— Ar-rest of Vallandigham. After the battle of Corinth and the oc-cupation of Memphis, the principle object ofmilitary operations was the opening of theMississippi river. The Confederates heldVicksburg and Port Hudson which effectu-ally blocked navigation for the Federals. Atthe North there was much discouragement,recruiting had come to a standstill, and thedraft was being enforced as a method of ob-taining men. In General Grants wordsThere was nothing left to be done but to GO FORWARD TO A DECISIVE VICTORY. To reach Vicksburg by land required severalhundred miles of marching, and long lines ofcommunications to be guarded, as a resultthe movement was made by water to theinfantry private immediate vicinity of Vicksburg. A large 1802. J i r? fleet of steamboats had been assembled at and Cairo. Admiral Porter dropped down to Memphiswith his whole gun-boat fleet. General Sherman states thatuThe preparations were necessary hasty in the extreme, but. CHICKASAW BAYOU 27 this was the essence of the whole plan, viz., to reach Vicks-bnrg as it were by surprise, while General Grant held incheck Pembertons army about Grenada, leaving me to con-tend with only the smaller garrison of Vicksburg and its well-known strong batteries and defenses. The Steamer, ForrestQueen, carried on board the general headquarters and sevencompanies of the 1st Battalion 13th Infantry. The whole com-mand rendezvoused at Friars Point on steamers on the 22dof December 1862 and proceeded towards Vicksburg. Fordetailed instructions from General Sherman to his divisioncommanders, see his letter dated December 23, 1862 found inAppendix B. The Federal gun boats already controlled theYazoo from its mouth up for twenty-four miles, which gaveSherman a choice of landing at some point below HaynesBluff. A part of the general plan was to land a brigade atMillikens Bend and send it to break the Vicksburg andShrev
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