Lights Over Vicksburg : Elucidation

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Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Grant and this prevented him from taking Vicksburg head-on. The next day Flag Officer David Porter, brought his fleet into the bayou and began firing upon the compound that same evening. Later in the week Union soldiers fired on the fort from across the river causing at least fifty Confederates to fall on both sides of the earthen fortification; streams of blood flowed from their bodies forming small pools which eventually turned the edge water red.

Union ironclad gunboats bombarded the fort with cannon fire to prevent a Confederate retreat. In the heat of cannon blasts Commander Porter was distracted by something hovering overhead. He looked through his binoculars in awe. His entry in the log was edited because in his own wards:. It had been concluded that due to lack of sleep and stress of battles that he had hallucinated.

There were a multitude of corpses floating in the surrounding swamp, with streams of red discoloring the water: There were one-hundred-thirty-four Union soldiers killed; with over a thousand wounded. The blockade had been destroyed but the victory did nothing to blemish Vicksburg. What are you talking about?

When I tried to find the words to describe them I was at a complete loss. There were two or three of them hovering over Fort Hindman and when they moved, they moved swiftly. Afterwards when we interrogated the prisoners they had all responded in surprise. They believed that they were some kind of Union weaponry. They had actually fired upon them but both bullet and cannon ball were somehow absorbed without impact.

I will place you in command of the lead corps and you will march your men on the west banks of the Mississippi. I would advise you from this day forward not to question my orders again, corporal. Later, Lincoln praised Grant, stating: He marched them through swamps and muddy trails along the west banks of the Mississippi River. He had accumulated more men along the way until he had 50, men stretched along the banks to Lake Providence which was seventy-five miles north of Vicksburg.

There was a lot of rain that winter which caused the river to rise and allowing scheduled boats to transport supplies to the camps. The weather had its own casualties. There were large numbers of men with smallpox, dysentery, typhoid, and other types of malarial diseases. There were burial parties of usually six men who buried the bodies along the rain soaked levees.

A sergeant and five corporals were digging into the muddy ground. The shovel made a bloop sound as mud was scooped out of the ground to eventually form a small pit. There were about eighty of these pits to be dug that afternoon. While in the midst of his work a corporal looked up for a moment to see some colored lights hovering over the banks some distance north of where he was standing.

This startled him to the point of jumping upright causing him to slip onto his rump with a muddy splat. His sergeant went immediately over. The sergeant looked in awe for a moment at the lights which appeared to be doing some sort of aerial dance. Just keep digging corporal there are lots of bodies to bury. Later that month General Tecumseh Sherman turned his division over to General McClernand but eventually it would be under the retinue of General Grant. And early that same year, Grant planned a series of decisive measures to take Vicksburg, which were now called: The labor was grueling; while mules and men were subjected to torturous conditions due to weather and the force to drive the work.

A sergeant could be seen kicking men in the sides and mules were to be hit in the head by large sticks. Sherman did not approve of the verbal and physical abuse giving orders and stating it would not be tolerated. Both men and animals became sick from the harsh conditions and many died of pneumonia. The engineering of the excavation was poorly executed and flooding on Mississippi River, broke through the dam at the head of the canal and flooded the area.

The canal filled up with backwater. Men and mules were stuck in the mud and a grotesque drowning scene was witnessed while men gasped their dying breaths in the rising water. Through gallant efforts most of the men were saved but a significant number of mules were lost. There were also incidences of so-called misconduct reported along the way which infuriated General Sherman. He wrote this into his journal:.

Even the poor Negroes are plundered of their blankets, chickens and cornmeal and even relieved of their tattered garments. They are famous for their fun and frolic and mischief and crime. They have perfect skill in evading justice. They are violent and lawless and have been somehow taught that they can do no wrong. Isolated incidents of pillaging are difficult or impossible to control but along the Mississippi in the practice seems to be widespread and out of control, with the victims being, women, children, and elderly men.

Such wholesale misconduct within the military implies almost by definition, a tacit complicity by officers of all ranks from the lowest lieutenants to commanding Generals. This activity could have been halted but was not. Sherman spoke to one of the generals. I will hear no more about it. In a desperate effort to continue the project, two large steam-powered dipper dredges, Hercules and Sampson, attempted to dig the canal, but the dredges were destroyed by confederate artillery fire from the bluffs at Vicksburg and in early March, the work on this canal was abandoned.

Grant employed Brigadier General James B. McPherson to build another canal from the Mississippi River to Lake Providence, which was just northwest of Vicksburg. McPherson wrote in his journal that the waterways were navigable on March 18th, but only a few Ohio River boats were available to transport some 8, men, and these were far too few to capture Port Hudson. Although this was the only one of the bayou expeditions to successfully bypass the Vicksburg defenses, a journalist had written:.

The next attempt was to get to the high ground of the bluffs above and below Yazoo City by sabotaging the Mississippi River levee near Moon Lake, some one-hundred miles north of Vicksburg, near Helena, Arkansas, and following the Yazoo Pass. He marched his soldiers on the west side of the Mississippi River in hopes to cross the river south of Vicksburg. Admiral Porter followed him with gunboats and supply ships o the south of Vicksburg. March 29th, General McClernand and his men began building bridges and log roads.

April 16th was a clear night with no moon in Vicksburg, Mississippi; Admiral Porter assembled a fleet of twelve Union ironclads. They were to run passed the Confederate batteries that aligned the banks of the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. The Confederates had lit some large vats tar on fire creating a brightness which resembled daylight with large ribbons of flame flared into the air.

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They knew that the Union flotilla was planning on making a run through the area and wanted clear visibility. Through the blaze some strange lights were witnessed above the river but they were dismissed as light refractions from the flickering conflagration. It was shortly before midnight, when the ironclads started down the river. Each ship was towing a coal barge. For two and a half hours, the gunboats were running passed the Confederate batteries. The Confederates blasted the fleet at around 2: The Union gunboats answered back with their own gunfire. Porter had observed that the Confederates had hit only high parts of his boats.

He reasoned that they could only depress their guns but so far, and had his gunboats stay near the east bank, and just below the Confederate cannon fire. They were so close to the shore he could hear the commanders giving their orders, with shells flying overhead. The fleet suffered very little damage; and thirteen men were wounded yet none were killed. On April 22nd, six more boats came through with supplies; one boat was wrecked, but the crew survived and they continued downstream on the wreckage. A week later, the Tuscumbia returned to reinforce attack.

The boat suffered five casualties and was wrecked from eighty-one continuous artillery hits. Grant performed two maneuvers: The second maneuver lured a number of Confederates out into the open to be captured and killed. The attack began at precisely at eight A. During the fight, the ironclads moved as close as one-hundred yards of the Confederate guns and confined the lower batteries of Fort Wade; but the Confederate north batteries at Fort Coburn remained intact. They advanced on Rodney Road towards Port Gibson. They stumbled onto Confederate outposts after midnight and fought with them for almost three hours.

Union soldiers marched on Rodney Road and along a plantation road at dawn. The Confederates engaged the Union soldiers but the Union soldiers pushed the Confederates back. The Confederates established new defensive positions at different times during the day but they could not stop the Union advance and so they retreated from the field early that afternoon. This defeat demonstrated that the Confederates were unable to defend the Mississippi River line and the Union forces had secured their occupation.

It was at this point, Grant made his decision. He dispatched orders to seize Grand Gulf and then move south to join forces with General Nathaniel Banks to capture Port Hudson; he knew that the combined forces could very well defeat Vicksburg. However General Banks was his senior officer and a joint attack would give Banks the credit for the victory; Grant was determined to retain all the glory. Grant met with General Banks in his tent. Grant reserved further requests because if Banks knew of his plans for Vicksburg he might have made a consideration.

He telegraphed a message to Washington D. Grant was still on the west side of the river when he summoned Colonel Benjamin Grierson and his army to central Mississippi for a two-week raid. He ordered Grierson to destroy enemy supplies and telegraph lines. Grierson sabotaged two locomotives, twenty-five freight cars carrying commissary supplies and ammunition which was intended for Vicksburg. With clanging noises and combined efforts they ripped out some thirty miles of track. A man with blonde curly hair and sideburns Thomas Tommy Reynolds a corporal from Arkansas in the 19th Infantry was sitting and discussing his plans with his two friends; Raeford Ray Tourberville and William Billy Ralston.

We work any man and pay just wages. If the South wins; what will that leave us and if the North wins what will it leave us? We have nothing to win and everything to lose. After the Arkansas Post surrendered Arkansas is occupied territory anyway and whether the Confederacy loses or not my family will retain the rights to the property. I was hoping you could be my bookkeeper. And so she insisted we learn to read.

Now read and learn all you can. On the other hand writing novels would be a good occupation for me. I have only seen you reading the newspaper and daily journals.

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I would like to hear of his explanation of those. At that time a young woman burst through the door and stomped over to their table. Her face was glowing red which was accented by her shiny brown hair, which was curly on either side, a reflection of the style of the day. Both Billy and Ray kept their silence. Jenkins; me and Tommy were just leaving. Just outside the tavern on the walkway the two continued their conversation. She saw the boats tied at their docks and the Union camps across the river. She looked back smiling.

They clasps elbows and walked eastwardly towards her house. Joe Flanders was killed not more than a month ago. A good part of it belongs to me and the rest will be divided between my brother and sister. You can tell the Union dock guards that you are going to visit relatives.

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We all know the swamps and bayous better than the Yankees so our best chance is to walk on the river banks and cross the river at Lula. I know some men in the 2nd Cavalry who would help me across with a boat. Adams Street could already be seen just one road from Cherry Street. They had walked these streets countless times but in these days of uncertainty it was as though they were seeing them for the first time and wondering if they would ever see them again.

Shortly they were at the intersection of Adams and Clay. Sadie the house servant was at the front door as they climbed the steps of the single story plantation style house. You know your daddy would be angry if he was here. Daddy has plans for next week when he gets back from Jackson and I want to be here. That should put us all there at the same time. Old man Jernigan owns the general store just up from the docks. He pulled her tight and kissed her hard. Tommy hurried down the hill towards the river and back to Duffs Tavern.

He found his two friends near the doorway. He found the nearest chair and nervously sat down.

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He paused for a moment, looked up and said: I know the land between here and Lula better than anyone from the outside and I know where people stow their boats. He ran up the gas lamp lighted Clay Street back up to Adams which was recessed back in darkness. He ran back around to the window outside of where Thelma slept. He threw a rock onto the clapboard siding near the window. He waited for a moment until Thelma pushed the window up. Why are you here? He handed the paper to her. Pemberton may just give the order to engage them. Jeffries has been making some successful runs up the river and you should be fine.

He ran back onto the road and she stood at the window until he disappeared down the road. Later Tommy arrived at the camp just seconds before the taps bugle. And the lights went out. The bugle sounded at sunrise; as it always did and the barracks was bustling; getting ready for breakfast. Tommy and Billy met with Ray in the chow line. Ray looked across the table at Tommy. I will give you the word any day now. It was the following Monday June 1st at 7: She did not want to wake Sadie, who would most definitely be concerned. She had a canvas bag containing toiletries and extra clothing.

She hurried down to the docks knowing that Bob Jefferies would leave punctually at 7: Jefferies was not surprised to see her when she approached the boat, though she had not spoken to him. They seem to be concentrating in the east. We got a problem with the telegraph being down too; communications are slow at best.

I see them almost every other day. I make this trip mostly every day and I still see plantation boats and skiffs crossing the river unabated. The Dock guards are only interested in soldiers coming across.

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Tommy told me that Mr. Jernigan is respected all over this area and the store just up from the docks. There was however remnants of the abandoned Union camps and a few were kept as outposts with a few soldiers remaining. But the river itself was unmistakably the Mississippi. There were the tell-tale fallen trees along the banks. And the thick canopy of Spanish Moss; which hung from the cypress trees like long grey beards.

The morning passed quickly and the paddle wheeled boat pushed on between the river banks and they were soon in sight of Helena. Jefferies steered the boat into the dock and had his deckhand secure the boat on the chocks.