. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . VICKSBURG PROVES IMPREGNABLE Chickasaw Bayou. Here rested Shermans extreme left, Decemlier 28, lSfi2, after a daysadvance over hottoin-hinds of extreme difficulty. From tliis jjoint, after sliarj) skirmishingwhich discomforted the advancing Federals, at niglitfall tiie Confederates retired to tlieirworks on the bhiff beyond, confident of Vieing able to rejiel the assault that was to confidence was not misplaced. Sherman had miscalculated in two particulars—chiefly in supposing that Grant was close at hand to support him.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . VICKSBURG PROVES IMPREGNABLE Chickasaw Bayou. Here rested Shermans extreme left, Decemlier 28, lSfi2, after a daysadvance over hottoin-hinds of extreme difficulty. From tliis jjoint, after sliarj) skirmishingwhich discomforted the advancing Federals, at niglitfall tiie Confederates retired to tlieirworks on the bhiff beyond, confident of Vieing able to rejiel the assault that was to confidence was not misplaced. Sherman had miscalculated in two particulars—chiefly in supposing that Grant was close at hand to support him. Furthermore, he didnot know that his movements had been daily reported and that Johnston and Pembertonwere fully aware of his .strength. On the very day that Sherman landed on the Yazoo,Pemberton arrived in with reenforccments, bringing the garrison uj) to twelvethousand, while Sherman su])posed that he was to contend with but half that prepared for uncompromising defense, the Confederates were liound to WHERE SHERMAN FAILED Chickasaw Bluffs. Stretching northeast from Vickslnirg, Wahiut Hill forms a perfectnatural fortress overlooking the bottom-lands toward the Yazoo, rising to a height oftwo hundred feet, as seen in the picture. In the whole twelve miles between HaynesBluff (where Sherman landed) and Vicksburg, there were but five i)oints where troopscould pass from the Yazoo through the network of bayous and swamps to attack thisbluff, and all these points were commanded by Confederate batteries. Sherman had con-siderable difficulty in properly posting his troops during the determined skirmishing keptup by the Confederates on the 28th. On the JOth, at noon, he gave the signal for theassault. The two brigades of De Courcy and Blair, together with the Fourth Iowa—sixthousand men in all—bore the brunt of the fighting and charged gallantly up to the Con-federate works. There, imsiipported, they were cut to pieces by the cross-fire that waspour
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