MAY 24TH
Confederates firedon the commissary and quartermaster boat of the Marine Brigade above Austin, Mississippi. Ellet's force went ashore and engaged them.
MAY 24TH TO 30TH
Union ships ascended the Yazoo River and burned four steamers and destroyed places along the river.
MAY 25TH
CSS Alabama burned ship Gildersleeve and bonded the Justice off Bahia, Brazil.
MAY 26TH
General Banks writes Farragut asking him to have his "mortars destroy the enemy's rest at night" at Port Hudson. They were.
Old B-R'er
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