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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
incessant. Still Grant toiled on; four thousand soldiers were constantly employed on the work, besides negroes, who were comparatively of little use. On the 4th of February, however, he reported to Halleck that he had lost all faith in the practicability of the scheme. The canal, he said, is at right angles with the thread of ththing to gain a passage, avoiding Vicksburg. Grant gave orders for cutting a way from the Mississippi to Lake Providence and went himself to that place on the 4th of February, remaining there several days. This sheet of water is a portion of the old bed of the river, and lies about a mile west of the present channel. It is six men for some more, and also for six tugs to tow them. With them it would be easy to carry supplies to New Carthage, and any point south of that. As early as February 4th, Grant had written to Halleck about this route: There is no question but that this route is much more practicable than the present undertaking, and would have