THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN.

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POSITION OF LOGAN’S DIVISION OF MCPHERSON’S CORPS. FROM A LITHOGRAPH.

In the middle-ground is seen the main line of works, exploding mine under the Confederate fort near thewhich on the right ascends the lull to the White House Jackson road. Between the Union and Confederateat the end of the curtain of trees. On the ridge to the lines, a little to the left of the center, are the trees thatleft of the White House is the Union sap leading to the mark the conference between Grant and Pemberton.

trouble in that quarter during the siege. This was the first important engage-ment of the war in wh ich colored troops were under fire. A These were very raw,having all been enlisted since the beginning of the siege, but they behaved well.

On the 8th of June a full division arrived from Hurlbut’s command, underGeneral Sooy Smith. It was sent immediately to Haynes’s Bluff, and GeneralC. C. Washburn was assigned to the general command at that point.

On the 11th a strong division arrived from the Department of the MissouriUnder General Herron, which was placed on our left. This cut off the lastpossible chance of communication between Pemberton and Johnston, as itenabled Lauman to close up on McClernand ’s left, while Herron intrenched'from Lauman to the water’s edge. At this point the water recedes a fewhundred yards from the high land. Through this opening, no doubt, the Con-federate commanders had been able to get messengers under cover of night.

On the 14th General Parke arrived with two divisions of Burnside’s corps, Jand was immediately dispatched to Haynes’s Bluff. These latter troops —Herron’s and Parke’s —were the reenforcements already spoken of, sent byHalleck in anticipation of their being needed. They arrived none too soon.

I now had about seventy-one thousand men. More than half were dis-posed of across the peninsula, between the Yazoo, at Haynes’s Bluff, and the

☆ Colored troops had "been under fire on the 27th been transferred from the Army of the Potomac°f May at Port Hudson.— Editors. in the previous March. After Vicksburg they re-

, J These troops came from the Department of turned to Burnside’s command and took part inl he Ohio (Burnside), June 14th to 17th, having the East Tennessee campaign.— Editors.