The banks are low there and the river spreads out to a vast distance.

After the boats go as far as they can we'll have to get off in water up to our waists and wade through treacherous floods." The question of landing was worrying Grant at that time and worrying him terribly.

The water spread far out over the sunken lands and he might have to drop down the river many miles before he could find a landing on solid ground, a fact which would scatter his army along a long line, and expose it to defeat by the Southern land forces.

But his anxieties were relieved early in the morning when a colored man taken aboard from a canoe told him of a bayou not five miles below Grand Gulf up which his gunboats and transports could go and find a landing for the troops on solid ground.
Dick was asleep when the boats entered the bayou, but he was soon awakened by the noise of landing.

It was then that most of the Winchester and of the Ohio regiment discovered that they were comrades, thrown together again by the chances of war, and there was a mighty welcome and shaking of hands.