A fleet of transports and supply vessels tries to duplicate David D. Porter’s feat of passing the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg and joining the Federal forces downriver.
Tag: Vicksburg Campaign
Grierson’s Daring Raid
Colonel Benjamin Grierson sets out with 1,700 Federal cavalrymen to divert attention from Ulysses S. Grant’s army landing below Vicksburg.
Vicksburg: Grant and Porter Assemble
Ulysses S. Grant assembles his Federal troops at Milliken’s Bend as David D. Porter prepares to pass the Vicksburg batteries with his Mississippi River Squadron.
The Severest Blow That Can Be Struck
Ulysses S. Grant finally concedes the impossibility of capturing the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg from the north and begins to develop another, more daring, plan.
The Steele’s Bayou Expedition
Federal Admiral David D. Porter concedes that yet another effort to reach Vicksburg using the vast network of waterways to the north has failed.
The End of the Yazoo Pass Expedition
The Federal flotilla comprising the Yazoo Pass expedition turns around and goes back to its starting point after proving unable to neutralize Fort Pemberton near Greenwood, Mississippi.