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31	Company E is still encamped east of Grenada.
February 1863
2	Grant cuts the levee at Yazoo Pass, Miss., to open a passage
for gunboats to reach the rear of Vicksburg by	way	of the
Yazoo River.
17	General William Wing Loring leaves Jackson	for	Yazoo
City and Fort Pemberton. Tilghman?s brigade goes also.
March 1863
10	Loring finishes construction of Fort Pemberton.
11	Federals commence bombardment of Fort Pemberton.
17	Grant?s Yazoo passs expedition is blocked at rebel Fort
Pemberton.
20	Federal forces retreat up river from Fort Pemberton.
23	Union gunboats again bombard the Fort.
April 1863
5	Federal forces finally abandon the bombardment and
retreat from Fort Pemberton.
16	Porter?s flotilla runs past the Vicksburg guns, preparing the way for Grant?s new campaign south and east of the city.
17	Col Benjamin H. Grierson leads a Federal cavalry raid
behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to disrupt Rebe/1 communications with Vicksburg.	^