The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . ions, capturing fivehundred prisoners, with the loss of only twenty-seven men. Theenemy sent out troops in all directions to head him off, but he baffledthem all, and rode into Baton Rouge in safety, after fighting four timesin the last twenty-eight hours of his daring ride. On the •29th of April, Grant resolved to try the batteries at GrandGulf. Porter opened on them with his gunboats, but the enemysworks were too high. Despairing of success here, Grant fell down theMississippi to Rodney, and cr
The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . ions, capturing fivehundred prisoners, with the loss of only twenty-seven men. Theenemy sent out troops in all directions to head him off, but he baffledthem all, and rode into Baton Rouge in safety, after fighting four timesin the last twenty-eight hours of his daring ride. On the •29th of April, Grant resolved to try the batteries at GrandGulf. Porter opened on them with his gunboats, but the enemysworks were too high. Despairing of success here, Grant fell down theMississippi to Rodney, and crossing there on the 30th, pushed on the13th Corps to Port Gibson, in the rear of Grand Gulf, the 17th Corpsfollowing close. Sherman, who had been left above, now with some ofthe gunboats that had not run down made a feigned attack on HainesBluff, a strong position on the Yazoo above Vicksburg, and kept it uptill Grant summoned him to join the other corps below. Grants advance under McClernand was met on May 2d, near PortGibson, by a Confederate force under General Bowen, but, in spite of the. 6£NERAL GRANT IN ACTION.
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