The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . nd that of its chief tributa-ries, had chosen this as the pointmost favorable for resistance. Themeeting streams approach within amile, two or three miles above theirjunction ; receding directly after-ward. Loring, with his engineer,Maj. Meriwether, had obstructed theTallaha
The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . nd that of its chief tributa-ries, had chosen this as the pointmost favorable for resistance. Themeeting streams approach within amile, two or three miles above theirjunction ; receding directly after-ward. Loring, with his engineer,Maj. Meriwether, had obstructed theTallahatchie by a raft, with anold steamboat sunk behind it, andthrown a line of defenses, composedof cotton-bales and earth, across theneck of the peninsula ; its best guns, April 10 to 25. March 2. • March 11. Feb. 17. ** Lfjring reporte that this raft had not booncomploKKl when our fleet arrived. Tfie NewYork Tribune correspondent with the expedition says Lt. Smiths invincible lack of resolutionand energy, and manifest indifference, retarded,by several days, tho arrival of our vessels at thispoint, and was the true cause of our utterlyneedless failure. ROSS PAILS TO REACH THE YAZOO. 297 t>f course, trained upon the approaclidown the Tallahatchie, which a bendjust here rendered as difficult andperilous as could TAZOO REGION, The Chilicothe, Lt. Foster, firstattempted to pass; when the Rebelbattery opened, and a 32-pound shellstruck her turret, slackening herspeed; and she soon backed aroundthe bend until only her bow pro-truded ; when she renewed the can-nonade with her heavy bow-guns,and received one or two more shots,which did her no essential harm. An hour of this satisfied her, and shebacked completely out of the fight;when the De Kail) came forward andfired away for two hours: then she,too, gave it up; leaving the Rebelworks essentially intact. The next day was devoted by Rossto erecting a land battery in front ofthe Rebel lines, under cover of woods;Loring withholdin
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