Union
Admiral David D Porter took seven ironclads up the river in an attack against
the batteries at Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
The attention was to shut down the Confederate guns and secure the
landing area for troops of Union Major General John A McClernand. At about 8am the ironclads began the attack
and continued to fire on the Confederate batteries until about 1:30 pm. The ships silenced the guns of Fort Wad, but
the upper Confederate batteries at Fort Cobun continued their return fire. The Union ironclads drew off, but returned
again after dark engaging the Confederate gun, and running the steamboat troop
transports down the river past Grand Gulf.
Grant moved
his men overland below Grand Gulf across Coffee Point. The transport ships landed at Disharoon’s
plantation just below Grand Gulf.
Grant’s men loaded onto the transport.
They disembarked on the Mississippi shore and began marching overland
towards Port Gibson, Mississippi.
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