The fort is a rough and incomplete earthwork, constructed last Fall. It is built upon the second Chickasaw Bluffs, (those at Columbus being known as the first,) more than 100 feet above the river ...

Sherman and his men steamed up the Yazoo to attack Confederate forces at Chickasaw Bluffs. The attack, made on December 29, failed. In early 1863, Grant tried to hack a channel through the swamps ...