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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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he barges had floated southwardinto the sheltering darkness ; the blazing wreck hadburned down to the waters edge; the gunboats,sending their useless Parthian shots defiantlybackward, had steamed out of range; the Tuscum-bia herded the last stragglers, bringing up therear; and the silence, only deeper for this midnightdisturbance of fire and fury, again envelopedVicksburg and its girdle of forts. When the bargesfirst came floating down the stream, and the burn-ing wreck of the Henry Clay was seen, the rebels onthe plantations below imagined that the Yankeefleet had been destroyed; and even at McClernandsheadquarters the officers were not without fear ofsuch a disaster; but one by one the transports, thebarges, and at last the exultant naval vesselsgathered in, and it was found that the peril of thepassage had been more apparent than real. Noone was killed on the gunboats, eight only werewounded, and all of Admiral Porters vessels wereready for service within half an hour after passing
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THE CAMPAIGN OF THE BAYOUS 161 the batteries. The success was so perfect that a chap.vifew days later Grant sent another fleet of six vesselspast the batteries with the loss of only one. Theircrews, with two exceptions, declined the dangerousservice, but a call for volunteers produced from thehardy soldiers of Illinois and Missouri men enoughto have manned a hundred vessels.1 Grant, having thus accumulated a sufficient num-ber of transports to effect his crossing of the river,rapidly transferred McClernands force from Per-kinss Plantation to a village called Hard Times, ashort distance above the gulf-like bend of the riverupon which the Confederate fort at Grand Gulfwas situated. Two divisions of McPhersons corps,headed by General Logan, marched close behindthem, and on the 29th of April everything was i863,ready for the movement upon Grand Gulf. Sher-man was left behind at Millikens Bend. Therewere so few roads, and they were in such bad con-dition, that it was a slow business for on

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