. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . bt B\tg,tB of Utrkfibiirr; m\h ^nrt ilfu^Bnn -^ decisive rejjulse. His loss was nearly two thousand men; theConfederate loss was scarcely two hundred. Tavo hundred feet above the bayou, beyond where the Fed-erals were approaching, towered the Chickasaw Bluffs, towhich Peml)erton hastened troops from Vicksburg as soon ashe learned Shermans object. At the base of the bluff, andstretching away to the north and west were swamps and forestsintersected by deep sloughs, overhung with dense tangles ofvines and cane-l)rakes. Federal \alor v
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . bt B\tg,tB of Utrkfibiirr; m\h ^nrt ilfu^Bnn -^ decisive rejjulse. His loss was nearly two thousand men; theConfederate loss was scarcely two hundred. Tavo hundred feet above the bayou, beyond where the Fed-erals were approaching, towered the Chickasaw Bluffs, towhich Peml)erton hastened troops from Vicksburg as soon ashe learned Shermans object. At the base of the bluff, andstretching away to the north and west were swamps and forestsintersected by deep sloughs, overhung with dense tangles ofvines and cane-l)rakes. Federal \alor vied with Confederatejjluck in this fight among the marshes and fever-infestedjungle-land. One of Shermans storming parties, under General G. IVIorgan, came upon a broad and dee}} enlargement of thebayou, IMcNutt Lake, which interposed between it and theConfederates in the rifle-pits on the slopes and crest of the the darkness of the night of December 28th, the Federaljiontoniers labored to construct a passage-way across the morning da
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