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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ports arrived at Memphis and the embarkation of the troops Ibegan. Next day they moved down the river, convoyed iby Porters fleet. On the 20th Sherman landed thirteen jmiles up the Yazoo River and advanced to Chickasaw Blufls, Iwhere on the 2lltli he assaulted the defenses of Vicksburg \ to the north. The!news of the failureof Grants land expe-dition at Oxford hadreached McClernandinstead of Sherman,and as the latter gen-eral emerged from theswamps with his de- jfeated divisions, iMcClernand, on New ;^ ears Day, met him )at the mouth of the^ azoo and supersededhim in command. FEDERAL TRANSPORTS ON THE MI.SSISSHPI ONE SMOKKSTACK D.\M.\GED UV CONFEDER.\TE FIHE FROM THE UIVER B.\NK
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HCVlEW OF RLIL*^ CO. WHERE GRANTS CAMPAIGN WAS HALTED The Courthouse at Oxford. Mississippi. The second attempt to capture Vicksburg originated with Grant.Since he had sprung into fame at Fort Donelson early in 1862. he liad done little to strengthen his reputa-tion; but to all urgings of his removal Lincoln replied: I cant spare this man; he fights. He proposedto push southward through Mississippi to seize Jackson, the capital. If this could be accomplished. Vicks-burg (fifty miles to the west) would become untenable. At Washington his plan was overruled to theextent of dividing his forces. Sherman, with a separate expedition, was to move from Memphis down theMississippi directly against Vicksburg. It was Grants hope that by marching on he could unite withSherman in an assault upon this key to the Mississippi. Pushing forward from Grand Junction, sixtymiles, Grant reached Oxford December 5, 1862, but his supplies were still drawn from Columbus, Ken-tucky, over a single-track road to

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