Andrew Redding, a Private in Company E from Old Ripley, died today in Memphis.
While Ross and Quimby were working their way back to the Mississippi, Grant was informed that Loring was being reinforced from Vicksburg. Fearing the Union expedition be surrounded and captured, Grant planned an expedition to relieve him and at the same time reach the Yazoo above Haynes' bluff.
The route selected was up the Yazoo and through a variety of sloughs, bayous, and backwaters. Rear Admiral Porter, with the Pittsburg, Louisville, Mound City, Cincinnati and Carondelet, four mortar boats and two tugs, accompanied by General Sherman, with one division of his corps, started up the Yazoo today, preceded by the 8th Missouri troops who were to remove trees and other obstructions from the water.
