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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
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 nexresidence of Dr. Sellers. as fast as it crossed the river. The advance was met by a Confederate force the next morning May 1. at two o'clock, eight miles from Bruinsburg, where the foe was pressed back, but was not pursued until daylight. McClernand then pushed on to the parting of roads, four miles from Port Gibson, each runnid and the remainder wounded. They captured three guns, four flags, and 580 prisoners. Grant at once made arrangements for a change of his base of supplies from Bruinsburg to Grand Gulf. In the mean time General Sherman, with the Fifteenth corps, had been operating on the Yazoo again. He had been left above Vicksburg, with the
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, V. (search)
n six days the transports followed; and Vicksburg beheld the army that had been sitting in the mud for so many weeks depart, to return presently on its own side the river with a vengeance. Grant's arm was at length raised to strike. His first blow glanced at Grand Gulf, the southernmost defence of Vicksburg; but the next day he stood on the east shore, the tall, defended, baffling shore which Secession had called its Gibraltar. To do this, he had had to come down the river to cross at Bruinsburg, some thirty-one miles below Vicksburg. When this was effected, I felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equalled since, he says. I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy. He now manoeuvred to deceive Pemberton, and easily did so. On May 1 he won the battle of Port Gibson. He next made his great decision to cut loose from his base of supplies, and not inform Halleck until it was too late to stop him. When Sherman with several others strongly protested against t
William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil., Chapter 5: (search)
nt's personal direction, and soon reached New Carthage. There, however, there was a delay on account of McClernand's inefficiency, and Commodore> Porter was constrained to urge the immediate presence of Grant at the front. Further examination showing that it was advisable, in consequence of McClernand's delay, to cross the Mississippi at a point below Grand Gulf, which was strongly fortified, General Grant, upon assuming immediate command, moved down from New Carthage to a point opposite Bruinsburg. There the troops were transported across the river by the steamers and gunboats, and established themselves on the Mississippi side, and compelled the evacuation of Grand Gulf. Then Grant,, sending his pithy despatch, You may not hear from me again for several days, cut loose from his base, and commenced his brilliant campaign. With skilful movements, which deceived the enemy, he marched to Jackson, skirmished, fought battles, captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, and then rapi
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., General Grant. (search)
river to join Grant. A further march of twenty-two miles was still necessary in order to reach the first high ground, where the army might land and establish itself on the eastern shore. This first high land is at Grand Gulf, a place strongly held at that time by the Confederates, and as unattackable from the river as Vicksburg itself. Porter ran the batteries of Grand Gulf as he had run those of Vicksburg; the army descended the river a few miles, and on the 30th of April was landed at Bruinsburg, on the eastern shore, without meeting an enemy. Grant's plan had succeeded. He was established on the eastern bank, below and in rear of Vicksburg. Though Vicksburg was not yet taken, and though he was in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between him and his base of supplies, yet he felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equalled, since I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy. And indeed from this moment his success was
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 14 (search)
Grierson's raid to Baton Rouge Porter attacks the batteries at Grand Gulf Grant crosses at Bruinsburg Sherman feints on Haines's Bluff crosses the Mississippi at Hankinson's Ferry fight at Port. Finally, having learned from a negro that there was a good road from the little hamlet of Bruinsburg, half way down to Rodney, running back to Port Gibson, in the rear of Grand Gulf, the General ance, under McClernand, first encountered the enemy May 1-2 A. M. when eight miles out from Bruinsburg; but the Rebels were not in force, and fell back unpursued till morning; when McClernand advanf, with a small escort of cavalry, to make arrangements for changing his base of supplies from Bruinsburg to this point, while his army awaited the arrival of wagons, provisions, and Sherman's corps; Gen. Grant reports his aggregate losses in this memorable campaign, from the day he landed at Bruinsburg till that of the surrender, at 943 killed, 7,095 wounded, and 537 missing: total, 8,575; of wh
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Appended notes. (search)
s caused by, 644. British officers for the Rebellion, 643. British Proclamation of neutrality. 642. Brockenbrough, Col., at second Bull Run, 189. Brooklyn, N. Y., arson and its cause in, 505. Brough, John, elected Governor of Ohio, 510. Brown, Col., killed at second Bull Run, 689. Brown, Col. J. M., killed at Fair Oaks, 144. Brown, Gen. E. B., fights at Arrow Rock, 453. Brown, Gen., killed at Springfield, 447. Brown, Maj.-Gen., wounded at Franklin, 683. Bruinsburg, Miss., Grant's base of supplies, 304. Buchanan, Admiral Franklin, commands ram Manassas, 116; severely wounded at Mobile, 653. Buchanan, Gen. J. T., at Gaines's Mill, 166. Buchanan, Gen., commands a brigade at Malvern Hill, 165; at Gainesville, 187. Buckner, Gen. Simon B., 48; repulsed at Fort Donelson, 49; surrenders, 50; at Chickamauga, 415; abandons East Tennessee, 429; surrenders, 758. Buell, Gen. D. C., commands Department of the Ohio, 51; moves on Bowling Green, 51; occu
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
d not been accomplished at six o'clock in the afternoon, General Grant abandoned the attempt, and determined to land at Bruinsburg. For this purpose the troops debarked at Hard Times, and marched to the plain below Grand Gulf; and the gunboats and tat 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 ml Bowen, who commanded at Grand Gulf, observing the movement of the Federal forces down the river, and their landing at Bruinsburg, placed Green's and Tracy's brigades on the route from that point into the interior, four miles in advance of Port Gibst below Port Gibson.... General Bowen says he is outnumbered trebly.... Enemy can cross all his army from Hard Times to Bruinsburg.... I should have large reenforcements .... Enemy's success in passing our batteries has completely changed character o
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
on. Lieutenant-General Pemberton says: With a moderate cavalry force at my disposal, I am firmly convinced that the Federal army under General Grant would have been unable to maintain its communications with the Mississippi; and that the attempt to reach Jackson and Vicksburg from that base would have been as signally defeated in May, 1863, as a like attempt, from another base, had, by the employment of cavalry, been defeated in December, 1862. See his report, p. 82. In its march from Bruinsburg by Port Gibson to Jackson, and thence to Vicksburg, the Federal army drew its supplies from the country; and did not in the least depend on its communications with the Mississippi. Consequently, cavalry placed on what General Pemberton regarded as its communications, would have been altogetheruseless. Major. General Van Dorn's success, referred to, was obtained by the surprise of the garrison of Holly Springs and the destruction of General Grant's military supplies in depot in the town.
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
the hesitation of the Government to reinforce the Army of the Mississippi. About eighteen thousand men were sent to it from Beauregard's and Bragg's departments between the 12th and the end of May. This could have been done as easily between the middle of April, when General Grant's plan became distinctly known, and the 1st of May, when he crossed the Mississippi. With such an addition to his strength, General Pemberton would certainly have enabled Bowen to meet McClernand's corps, near Bruinsburg, with a superior force, and probably decide the campaign by defeating it. The only proper measures in my power were taken to rebuild the railroad and bridge at Jackson, after their destruction by the Federal army in July. As many laborers, wagons, and teams, as the engineers of the railroad companies required, were impressed for their use. It was with such assistance that one company repaired its road and the other was repairing its bridge, after.their destruction in May by General Gr
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
usand (3,000) Federal troops were at Bethel Church, ten miles from Port Gibson, at three o'clock on the morning of the 29th, and that they were still landing at Bruinsburg. Brigadier-General Tracey, of Stevenson's division, had reached Grand Gulf with his brigade on the 30th. Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, of the Twentieth Mississippi latter as well as Warrenton, where a landing, under cover of his gunboats, might have been easily effected, and his whole army concentrated there instead of at Bruinsburg; and this movement would have placed him at once west of the Big Black. It was impossible for me to form an estimate of his absolute or relative strength at thertain that they will cross in force. On the 30th of April, I received, by telegraph from General Bowen, the first information of the landing of the enemy at Bruinsburg, and on the following day (May 1st) the battle of Port Gibson was lost by us. In corroboration of the statement made with regard to the threatening aspect of af
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