The gunboats, however, attacked on the 11th and again on the 13th of March.

Both efforts were failures and were not renewed.

One gunboat was disabled and we lost six men killed and twenty-five wounded.

The loss of the enemy was less.
Fort Pemberton was so little above the water that it was thought that a rise of two feet would drive the enemy out.

In hope of enlisting the elements on our side, which had been so much against us up to this time, a second cut was made in the Mississippi levee, this time directly opposite Helena, or six miles above the former cut.