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Identifier: abrahamlincolnhi07nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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lieve McClernand of the commandof the expedition against Vicksburg in favor ofSherman, his junior, determined to take personalcharge of it himself; a determination to which weowe one of the most brilliant and instructive chap-ters in all our annals. In accordance with ordersfrom the War Department the army was dividedinto foui corps numbered and commanded as fol-lows: the Thirteenth by McClernand; the Fif-teenth by Sherman; the Sixteenth by Hurlbut, andthe Seventeenth by McPherson. General Grantlost no time in thoroughly completing this organ-ization of his forces; but, in striking contrast tothe conduct of some of our generals in the East,he did not spend an hour in mere drill and disci-pline, rightly belie\ing that, with an army com-posed like that of the Tennessee, the active work ofa campaign was the best possible school. Hurlbutscorps was left in charge of the line of the Memphisand Charleston Railroad, and McPhersons was, asrapidly as possible, brought down the river to join 144
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GENERAL JOHN A. MCCLEKNAND. THE CAMPAIGN OF THE BAYOUS 145 those of McClernand and Sherman aheady at chap.vi.MiUikens Bend. General Grant now found himself at the head ofan army which, upon any ordinary field, would havebeen irresistible to any force the enemy were able tobring against him, and the fact that for threemonths he was unable to make a single inch of pro-gress only shows what powerful auxiliaries the armyof Pemberton possessed in the forces of nature andthe singular topography of the country in whichthis extraordinary campaign was carried on. Vicks-burg, planted upon a plateau two hundred feethigh, surrounded by formidable outlying worksand batteries, defended from approach on thesouth by fortifications as far as Warrenton, andtwo hundred miles further down the river by thefortress of Port Hudson, impregnable, thus far, toany force that could be brought against it fromNew Orleans, was still more strongly defended onthe north by that vast network of bayou and marshwhich fil

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  • bookcontributor:University_of_Illinois_Urbana_Champaign
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