...arched to the plain below Grand Gulf; and the gunboats and transports,passing that place in the night, as they had done at Vicksburg, were in readiness at daybreak next morning to ferry the troops to Bruinsburg , six miles. The number of vessels was sufficient to transport a division at a time. General Pemberton reported to me, by telegraph, that day: The enemy is at Hard Times in large force, with barg...