No attempt to charge was made this time, the experience of the 25th admonishing us.
Our loss in the first affair was about thirty killed and wounded.

The enemy must have lost more in the two explosions than we did in the first.

We lost none in the second.
From this time forward the work of mining and pushing our position nearer to the enemy was prosecuted with vigor, and I determined to explode no more mines until we were ready to explode a number at different points and assault immediately after.

We were up now at three different points, one in front of each corps, to where only the parapet of the enemy divided us.
At this time an intercepted dispatch from Johnston to Pemberton informed me that Johnston intended to make a determined attack upon us in order to relieve the garrison at Vicksburg.

I knew the garrison would make no formidable effort to relieve itself.