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The Battle of Yazoo City (March 5, 1864) was an engagement in Mississippi during a month-long Union expedition up the Yazoo River in the American Civil War. The Union force commanded by Colonel James Henry Coates repulsed an attack led by Confederate Brigadier General Lawrence Sullivan Ross.
From September 1863 to December 1864, northern gunboats ranged the Yazoo River at will, and Yazoo City was raided and/or temporarily occupied four more times without significant resistance from the small number of Confederate units operating in the interior of Mississippi.
Yazoo River was falling. Pilots warned that if the Arkansas did not get into the deeper Mississippi River soon, the great ironclad would be land-bound for the summer. So, on July 2, 1862, the Arkansas steamed away on her first self-powered voyage. Never a more unlikely vessel headed for combat.
17 Μαρ 2024 · The Yazoo Pass Expedition was a failed Union attempt to advance on Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the spring of 1863. On March 28, 1863, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant ordered an end to the Yazoo Pass Expedition. [Wikimedia Commons] Prelude to the Expedition. Grant Captures Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.
The Yazoo Pass expedition was a joint operation of Major General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee and Rear Admiral David D. Porter's Mississippi River Squadron in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
It involved cutting through a levee built by the State of Mississippi in the 1850s to shut off access to the river from Moon Lake. Moon Lake led to Yazoo Pass, a small bayou, which in turn fed into the Coldwater River.
The Yazoo City expedition was an expedition of Union forces from the Vicksburg garrison under General John McArthur against Confederate forces in central Mississippi under General Wirt Adams. History. McArthur's expedition was in conjunction with a second Union raid under Samuel D. Sturgis in northern Mississippi.
