Running aground, he was obliged to abandon his vessel.

However, he reported that he set fire to her and blew her up.

Twenty of his men fell into the hands of the enemy.
With the balance he escaped on the small captured steamer, the New Era, and succeeded in passing the batteries at Grand Gulf and reaching the vicinity of Vicksburg.
(*11) One of Colonel Ellet's vessels which had run the blockade on February the 2d and been sunk in the Red River.
(*12) NOTE .-- On this occasion Governor Richard Yates, of Illinois, happened to be on a visit to the army and accompanied me to Carthage.

I furnished an ambulance for his use and that of some of the State officers who accompanied him.
(*13) NOTE .-- When General Sherman first learned of the move I proposed to make, he called to see me about it.

I recollect that I had transferred my headquarters from a boat in the river to a house a short distance back from the levee.