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Sherman Wins Easy Union Victory at Arkansas Post
The account recalls Sherman's rough start near Vicksburg and his decision to attack Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post with Porter’s gunboats. Sherman describes the assault, the surrender of a Confederate brigade, and his talks with Churchill and Deshler as Union forces captured the fort, suffering about 1,001 Union casualties to roughly 130 Confederate deaths and taking 4,791 prisoners before moving back toward Vicksburg.
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Lmuawon
Akers Tvs
Mai
William Jecunisc Sheringa
David Porter
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Miss
Sherman
Chickasaw — Bluffs
Catmnand
Porter
Pehaw
Arkansas Post
Fort Hindman
Maj. Grant
Department
Grant
Arkansas River
McClemend
McClern
JohncClernand
Mississippi
Admiral Porter
Thomas J. Churchill
Kentucky
A. J. Smith
Churchill
James Deshler
Tuscumbia
Ala
Frederick Steele
Deshler
Medien Pand
Lincoln Jon
Rieces
Col
Samuel Garland
Garland
St. Louis
McClernand