MAY 8TH
Secretary Welles tells President Lincoln of the fall of Grand Gulf, Mississippi, who had not heard of it yet.
Union mortar flotilla supported by USS Richmond opens fire on Port Hudson, Mississippi.
MAY 9TH
USS Aroostook captured Sea Lion bound from Mobile to Havana with a cargo of cotton.
MAY 10TH
The USS Mound City engages a Confederate battery near Warrenton and sets it afire. "Thus ended a fort in the space of an hour which had taken the rebels five months to build, working day and night."
Old B-Runner
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