MAY 26TH
Army-Navy expedition and occupation of Wilkinson's Point, North Carolina. Three ships reconnoitered the area along the Neuse River, capturing and destroying a number of small schooners and boats. Then, the gunboats covered the Army landing until they were solidly entrenched.
MAY 27TH
The USS Cincinnati engaged Confederate positions at Vicksburg and despite safety precautions, a shot entered its magazine and the ship began filling with water. The Cincinnati suffered 25 killed or wounded and 15 probable drownings.
Confederate defenders defeat a Union attack on Port Hudson, inflicting severe losses on the Army. General Banks' troops returned to their siege positions and asked Farragut to continue his day and night bombardment.
The CSS Chattahoochee, under Lt. John J. Guthrie, was accidentally sunk with a "terrible loss of life" by a boiler explosion. Some 18 were killed. and many wounded and scalded. She was later raised, but never in action again.
MAY 28TH
Porter instructs his fleet that "it will be the duty of the commander of every vessel to fire on the people working on the enemy's batteries, to have officers on shore examining the heights, and not to have it said that the enemy put up batteries in the sight of them and did nothing to prevent it."
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