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the great strength of the movement; and on the night of the day following, Grant's plan was revealed beyond doubt by the passage of the Vicksburg batteries by seven gunboats and three empty transports, with the loss of one vessel.
This detachment joined the three gunboats already below Warrenton.
Pemberton now hastily recalled the brigades sent to Bragg, and notified the Trans-Mississippi commander that ‘the enemy is cutting a passage from near Young's Point to Bayou Vidal, to reach the Mississippi river near New Carthage.
Without co-operation, it is impossible to oppose him.’
The troops under command of Lieut.-Gen. John C. Pemberton in April, 1863, were organized as follows:
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