Life And Services of General Us Grant Conqueror of the Rebellion And Eightee
Life And Services of General Us Grant Conqueror of the Rebellion And Eightee
1868 1872 Republican Party Us 1854 National Committ
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43 The entire country on both banks of the Mississippi, outside of this narrow line of hills, is one great marsh, thickly overgrown with un- derbrush and forest trees, and intersected with innumerable shallow streams, a region about as unfit for ofi'ensive military operations as it is possible to conceive. This country was now completely flooded by the great rise in the Mississippi, and the water stood to the depth of several feet, everywhere except on the blufis, and along the narrow artificia...l banks called levees, erected by the inhabitants to protect their lands from the annual inundation. This year the deluge was greater than had been known for many seasons. * The works reached south from the Yazoo to a point on the Missis- sippi called Warrenton, a distance of twenty miles. They were de- fended on the water side by twenty-eight guns, which commanded all approach by the river. Every efi'ort had been made to strengthen the fortifications. Nature herself had done her best to render Vicksburg impregnable; these abrupt hills overlooking a flat country for miles, the country submerged in water, a great river immediately in front of the ridge, were in themselves extraordinary obstacles; but when to these were added an army of sixty thousand men, either in the town or in the region covering it, and all available for its defence ; rifle- pits, formidable forts, obstructions in the river, and an armament of over two hundred cannon, the difficulties in the way of Grant seemed almost insurmountable.
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