. The army in the civil . directed toreconnoitre in search of a road to such a p6int, and he dis-covered one leading around another bayou, called Lake , to a hamlet, called Hard Times, just above the bendon which Grand Gulf is situated. While this route wasbeing examined, work on the bridges between Smiths andPerkins plantations was prosecuted with the utmost vigor,60 that on the 27th the whole of McOlernands corps wasassembled at Perkins. On the following day, two divisionsof this corps were moved down to Hard Times by the river,the transports returning at once for the other tw
. The army in the civil . directed toreconnoitre in search of a road to such a p6int, and he dis-covered one leading around another bayou, called Lake , to a hamlet, called Hard Times, just above the bendon which Grand Gulf is situated. While this route wasbeing examined, work on the bridges between Smiths andPerkins plantations was prosecuted with the utmost vigor,60 that on the 27th the whole of McOlernands corps wasassembled at Perkins. On the following day, two divisionsof this corps were moved down to Hard Times by the river,the transports returning at once for the other two the same time, McPhersons two divisions, Logan in thelead, were moving by the land route from Smiths aroundBayou Vidal to Perkins, and from Perkins around Lake to Hard Times. On the 29th, everything was inreadiness for the long-expected crossing of the river, and onthat day an attack was made by the gunboats upon the bat-teries at Grand Gulf. Before describing this, it will be necessary to refer to the.
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