The armament was thrown overboard and the vessel run ashore.
Officers and crew then surrendered.
I had started McClernand with his corps of four divisions on the 29th of March, by way of Richmond, Louisiana, to New Carthage, hoping that he might capture Grand Gulf before the balance of the troops could get there; but the roads were very bad, scarcely above water yet.

Some miles from New Carthage the levee to Bayou Vidal was broken in several places, overflowing the roads for the distance of two miles.

Boats were collected from the surrounding bayous, and some constructed on the spot from such material as could be collected, to transport the troops across the overflowed interval.

By the 6th of April McClernand had reached New Carthage with one division and its artillery, the latter ferried through the woods by these boats.

On the 17th I visited New Carthage in person, and saw that the process of getting troops through in the way we were doing was so tedious that a better method must be devised.