Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . n-boats co-operated by opening fire in front, and at the appointedtime the assault was general along the whole line. Sergeant Griffith and 11 men of the 22d Iowa infantry,of McClernands corps entered one of the bastions of afort in front of McClernands position, but all except thesergeant were killed or captured. In two instances atother points regimental flags were planted on the bastions,but that was all. The whole attack was repulsed with aloss of nearly 3,000 in killed, wounded, and captured. Atone tim
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . n-boats co-operated by opening fire in front, and at the appointedtime the assault was general along the whole line. Sergeant Griffith and 11 men of the 22d Iowa infantry,of McClernands corps entered one of the bastions of afort in front of McClernands position, but all except thesergeant were killed or captured. In two instances atother points regimental flags were planted on the bastions,but that was all. The whole attack was repulsed with aloss of nearly 3,000 in killed, wounded, and captured. Atone time General McClernand thought his attack hadbeen successful, and sent word to that effect to GeneralGrant, and at the same time he asked reinforcements,which were sent. Colonel Boomer commanding one ofthe reinforcing brigades was killed just as his men wentinto action, and shortly afterwards the assaulting forcewas hauled off. It was evident that Vicksburg could only be taken bysiege, and General Grant sat down in front of it for thatpurpose. When he invested the place his forces were. VICKSBURG SKETCH PLAN OF SIEGE LINES 283 284 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. about equal to those of Pemberton whom he was besieging ;each had not far from 30,000 men, and it has been claimedby some historians that the Confederates were numericallysuperior. Be this as it may, the relative conditions of thetwo armies was vastly different. The Union forces wereflushed with victory, while the Confederates were disheart-ened by defeat ; the Union forces were well fed and cloth-ed, having opened communications with their heavilyladen transports in the Yazoo, while the Confederates werepoorly supplied and had starvation staring them in theface. Grant had an abundance of ammunition, while Pem-berton was but poorly supplied, and of his 30,000 menthere were 6,000 in hospital, so that he could hardly mus-ter more than 15,000 effectives. Reinforcements, provisions, munitions, artillery, and in-trenching too
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