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Identifier: lifedeedsofgener02nort (find matches)
Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ton, in fact, hadtaken a strong position behind two lines of defences,the outer being the Yallabusha and the inner beingthe Tallahatchie—two streams which after their junc-tion form the Yazoo River. Both of these streamscross the Mississippi Central railroad between GrandJunction and Grenada. The banks of the Tallahatchiewere strongly fortified. Grants first intention was tooffer Pemberton battle, defeat him, and force his wayto Vicksburg. Sherman and Grant Laying- Plans. On the 8th he sent out McPherson with ten thousandinfantry and fifteen hundred cavalry, with instructionsto drive from Lamar a body of Confederates whowere holding the railroad. McPherson accomplishedhis task in the most effectual manner, the Confed-erates having been driven back as far as HollySprings. The time had now come to make a determined effort to open the Mississippi. About the 17th of November, Grant summonedSherman to meet him at Columbus, and at the inter-view which there took place the views of the two
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MAP OF VICKSBURG AND VICINITY. u 273 274 GENEKAL SHERMAN. generals were freely exchanged, Grant explaining toSherman his plan and giving him his orders. It was Shermans suggestion that a portion of Cur-tiss army, which was stationed at Helena, shouldbe brought over to Delta with a view to co-operatewith Grant in his general movement toward Vicks-burg. These troops which, in the absence of GeneralCurtis, who was at St. Paul, were under the tempo-rary command of General Frederick Steele, werepromptly at the place appointed on the eastern bankoi the Mississippi. They numbered some seventhousand men, and were under the joint command olGenerals A. P. Hovey and C. C. Washburne. Ordered to scour the country to the south and eastin the rear of the Confederate army, to destroy therailroads and bridges so as to cut off supplies, ancgenerally to prepare the way for Grants advancethey accomplished their task in the most effectua.manner, and then returned to the Mississippi. Confederates Fall Back

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