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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 39: (search)
expedition was ordered back to the Louisiana shore above Vicksburg, where they arrived on March 27, 1863. General Grant was now in command of a large army, holding various positions on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg, extending from Milliken's Bend above to New Carthage below, with a fleet of gunboats in the river above Vicksburg, and another some eight miles below. Lieutenant General Pemberton's military district included Vicksburg, and Major General Gardner was in command at Port Huf being washed out by the current of the river, it was filled up by its sediment. Another attempt to get into the Mississippi without passing the batteries at Vicksburg was by digging a canal to connect the river with the bayou in rear of Milliken's Bend, so as to have water communication by way of Richmond to New Carthage. These indications of a purpose to get below Vicksburg caused General Pemberton, early in February, 1863, to detach Brigadier General John S. Bowen, with his Missouri Bri