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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
At six o'clock that evening Porter again attacked the batteries, and under cover of the fire all the transports passed by in good condition. Three of Porter's gun-boats, were much injured in the fight and in the passage. of the batteries, and he lost twenty-four men killed and fifty-six, wounded. The injured vessels were soon repaired and made ready for active service. Grierson's raid. Informed by a negro that there was a good road from Bruinsburg (half-way between Grand Gulf and Rodney) to Port Gibson or the Bayou. Pierre, in rear of Grand Gulf, Grant decided to cross at that point. At daylight the next morning the gun-boats and transports commenced. ferrying the troops. So soon as the Thirteenth corps, under McClernand, was landed, it was pushed forward toward Port Gibson with three days rations, followed by the Seventeenth corps under McPherson, which had lately come down from beautiful Lake Providence, The picture on page 604, giving a view of a portion of the sh