. Young folk's history of the war for the union . from then determined togive up the movement byland against Vicksburgand to send his army inboats down the Missis-sippi. Grants retreat ena-bled Pemberton to usemost of his force againstSherman, who, not know-ing of the disaster at Hol-ly Springs, had landedhis troops near the mouthof the Yazoo Eiver, which flows into the Mississippi just aboveVicksburg. Sherman found the Confederate lines of worksbehind the city were strong, while the country was swampy andso cut up by creeks and bayous as to make it very difficult toapproach. He mad
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . from then determined togive up the movement byland against Vicksburgand to send his army inboats down the Missis-sippi. Grants retreat ena-bled Pemberton to usemost of his force againstSherman, who, not know-ing of the disaster at Hol-ly Springs, had landedhis troops near the mouthof the Yazoo Eiver, which flows into the Mississippi just aboveVicksburg. Sherman found the Confederate lines of worksbehind the city were strong, while the country was swampy andso cut up by creeks and bayous as to make it very difficult toapproach. He made an attack on the works, but found it im-possible to take them, and after suffering a loss of nearly twothousand men, he made up his mind to wait for Grant. In the beginning of January, General McClernand came,and being the senior officer, took command. The name of thearmy was then changed from Army of the Tennessee to Armyof the Mississippi. At General Shermans request, a naval andmilitary expedition was sent up the Arkansas River against Fort. John C. Pemberton. 326 VIGK8BUB0. [1863. Hindman, at a place called Arkansas Post, where the Confederateskept several steamboats that used to come down into the Mis-sissippi and capture supply boats. Sherman commanded thetroops and Admiral Porter the gunboats. After a bombardmentby the gunboats, by which the Confederate sharpshooters weredriven out of their rifle-pits, the troops pushed their way throughhalf-frozen swamps, and bivouacked for the night. In the morn-ing they advanced under a heavy fire, in which nearly a thou-sand men were lost. They were about to storm the fort when awhite flag was hoisted and the place surrendered with about fivethousand prisoners. Slierman then returned to Millikens Bendon the Mississippi, where Grant soon after arrived and took command of the whole armyin person. A glance at the map willshow that Vicksburg is situ-ated at the end of a long bendin the Mississippi. In July,18G2, when Admiral Farra-gut
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