Supporting The Siege of Vicksburg
Throughout the winter and spring of 1863, Linden, continued to support operations against the Confederate river stronghold at Vicksburg. She remained above the fortress when Admiral David Dixon Porter and his gunboats dashed under Vickburg’s guns to support Grant’s campaign from below. On 29 April with seven other Union Navy ships, three mortar boats and 10 large Army transports, Linden began a feigned attack on the Confederate batteries at Haynes Bluff on the Yazoo River above Vicksburg. The movement was designed to prevent southern reinforcement of Grand Gulf where Grant was about to land his troops after crossing the Mississippi River.
That day the expedition proceeded as far as Chickasaw Bayou. On the 30th the task force moved up the Yazoo River, and landed troops who marched up “...the levee, making quite a display, and a threatening one also.” Naval gunfire supported the demonstration until Grant had safely ferried his men across the river and landed at Bruinsburg, Mississippi. Then the diversionary troops withdrew from Haynes Bluff, reembarked, and the expedition returned to the mouth of the Yazoo River.
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