States, 'I expect to assault the city at 10 tomorrow. I would you send up the gunboats below the city and shell the rebel the mortars could all be sent down to near the point on the Louisiana shore and throw in shells during the night it would materially aid me?Ǫ' Title: Letter from U. S. Grant, near Vicksburg, to [David D.] Porter, May 21, 1863 . 21 May 1863. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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