APRIL 29TH
Admiral Porter's gunboats engaged Confederate fortifications at Grand Gulf in a five and a half hour battle. They managed to silence the lower batteries but not the upper ones. Porter admitted his ships were cut up by Confederate fire, but, "We are now in a position to make a landing where the general [Grant] pleases."
APRIL 29-MAY 1ST
Union Army-Navy feign an attack on Confederate batteries at Haynes' Bluff on the Yazoo River to prevent Confederates there from sending support to Grand Gulf. On the 30th, the USS Choctaw was hit 53 times.
APRIL 30- MAY 1ST
Grant ferries troops across the Mississippi at Bruinsburg to start his campaign of isolating Vicksburg from reinforcements.
The Noose Tightens on Vicksburg. --Old B-Runner
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