The weather today was windy, dusty and generally disagreeable.
The Confederates captured two Union gunboats and one transport, the John Warner. They were able to establish a strong blockade below the Union position. The blockade prevented the Union troops from getting supplies from boats coming up the river.
The John Warner was a Union transport ship that had started on its way down the Red River on May 4th. Not all the Union ships had been trapped by the low water above the rapids. The John Warner was on its way to the Mississippi River, carrying an entire regiment of men going home on furlough.
