But it did not interfere with the rapidity of the landing.

The Winchester regiment was promptly ordered forward and, advancing on solid ground, took a little village without firing a shot.
All that day troops came up and Grant's army, after having gone away from Grand Gulf in darkness, was coming back to it in daylight.
"They say that Pemberton at Vicksburg could gather together fifty thousand men and strike us, while we've only twenty thousand here," said Pennington.
"But he isn't going to do it," said Warner.

"How do I know?
No, I'm not a prophet nor the son of a prophet.

There's nothing mysterious about it.

This man Grant who leads us knows the value of time.