. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . n a trap, for the rebels were felling trees andthrowing them across the channel behind him, so that he couldnot get out again. They had also raised earthworks at a pointwhere two rivers met, and they were well guarded. There was one forlorn chance left, yet untried, and that wasto go up the Yazoo a short distance, in boats, and pass into BigSunflower River, and then descend that stream into the Yazooagain. This hazardous expedition was intrusted to GeneralsSherman and Po
. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . n a trap, for the rebels were felling trees andthrowing them across the channel behind him, so that he couldnot get out again. They had also raised earthworks at a pointwhere two rivers met, and they were well guarded. There was one forlorn chance left, yet untried, and that wasto go up the Yazoo a short distance, in boats, and pass into BigSunflower River, and then descend that stream into the Yazooagain. This hazardous expedition was intrusted to GeneralsSherman and Porter, to carry forward. 186 RUNNING BY THE BATTERIES. The situation was desperate. The channels were narrow,there was no solid ground on which to plant troops, the cane-brake was dense and nearly impassable, and they actually had to pick their way through the dark and un- GRANT TRIES THE . yazoo pass. canny swamp by the aid of candles. It was inviting death too openly to proceed, for, added to natures horrors, the whole region swarmed with sharpshooters to whom every step of the way was familiar, and whose unerring te^.
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