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Title: The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Larned, Josephus Nelson, 1836-1913 Smith, Donald Eugene, 1878-
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. C.A. Nichols publishing company
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with Banks, but the land force was not able totake part: the ships were very severely handled,the Mississippi being destroyed, and only theflagship Hartford and one other getting past, butthey were able to gain control, and close theRed River to the Confederates. Farragut thencame up to the south of Vicksburg, and gotinto communication with Porter and Grant. Toopen the campaign against Vicksburg, Grantordered the canal to be enlarged which had beencut the year before, but when he came, sawthat this would be useless, as the enemy hadestablished a battery which enfiladed it. He thentried to turn the position by the bayous of theYozoo and its tributaries, but the distances weregreat, the work slow, and the Confederates fore-stalled and defeated all his attempts. He spentFebruary and March in vain endeavours to turnthe right flank of the defences, and then hadto devise something else; but what? Thereseemed a choice of three plans: (i) To assaultthe batteries. (2) To go back to Memphis and
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8899 UNITED STATES, 1863 Granfs Campaignagainst Vicksburg UNITED STATES, 1863 start afresh, along the Mississippi Central Rail-way. (3) To move round opposite Vicksburg,cross the river below it on the high land, andattack it in rear. The first would almost cer-tainly be defeated. From a military point ofview the second was the best, but Grant chosethe third, though it was most risky, and eventhe supplies depended on success, because ifsuccessful it would be decisive, and political con-siderations forbade even the semblance of retreat.The war was at a standstill, generally, and manyclamoured for his removal from command. Itwas the turning-point of his career. The detailof the plan was to move down the bayous tothe west of the river to New Carthage, somethirty miles below Vicksburg, run the gunboatsand transports past the batteries, make a com-bined attack on Grand Gulf, and bring the armyover; then to move along the valley of the BigBlack, and attack the land side of Vicksburg.The orig

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