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age of trees, stumps, and the levee, would shoot down every man that poked his nose outside the protection of their armor. . . . He informed me at one time things looked so critical that he had made up his mind to blow up the gunboats, and to escape with his men through the swamp to the Mississippi River. This attempt to get through to Yazoo, above Haines's Bluff, had so signally failed that the expedition was ordered back to the Louisiana shore above Vicksburg, where they arrived on March 27, 1863. General Grant was now in command of a large army, holding various positions on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg, extending from Milliken's Bend above to New Carthage below, with a fleet of gunboats in the river above Vicksburg, and another some eight miles below. Lieutenant General Pemberton's military district included Vicksburg, and Major General Gardner was in command at Port Hudson. These posts, as long as they could be maintained, gave us some control over the intermediat