. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . pTW^lFTM. POISONED SPRING OF CHICKASAW BAYOU THE end of 1862, in the Civil War, found the army in the East incamp at Falmouth, Virginia, after severe reverses. In theSouthwest a vigorous campaign was being waged by the heroesof Iuka and Corinth, Mississippi. Grant was in supreme com-mand of the Federal corps in northern Mississippi. A movement wasin operation against Vicksburg. Sherman was attempting to get into therear of the city by the Chickasaw Bayou road which ran from the Yazoobattlefield to the
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . pTW^lFTM. POISONED SPRING OF CHICKASAW BAYOU THE end of 1862, in the Civil War, found the army in the East incamp at Falmouth, Virginia, after severe reverses. In theSouthwest a vigorous campaign was being waged by the heroesof Iuka and Corinth, Mississippi. Grant was in supreme com-mand of the Federal corps in northern Mississippi. A movement wasin operation against Vicksburg. Sherman was attempting to get into therear of the city by the Chickasaw Bayou road which ran from the Yazoobattlefield to the Walnut Hills, six miles above the city. His column ofthirty thousand men was defeated and driven back with dreadful slaughteron the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of December. Rosecranz wasestablished at Nashville, while Bragg was putting his men into winterhuts at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Federal troops enjoyed Christmasin camp and on the following morning, in a cold rain, the Army of theCumberland advanced to Stone River where it enters the CumberlandRiver just above Nashville. At sunrise on
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