Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan yakin Arkansas Post, Grant ya sake samun iko da sojojin Sherman, da XV Corps, da kuma McClernand, wanda ya ci gaba da umurnin XIII Corps. Kanal Rutherford da Rundunar 'Yan Bindigar Illinois ta 97, har yanzu suna tare da brigade na Kanal Landram, yanzu Brigade na 2 a cikin Brigadier Janar Andrew Jackson Smith's 10th Division. Rundunar 'yan bindiga ta Illinois ta 97 ta shiga cikin yakin Port Gibson
a ranar 1 ga Mayu, 1863. Bayan shan wasu bluffs ba tare da tsayayya ba, sojojin Union sun jinkirta da hare-haren Confederate. An karfafa shi da Brigadier Janar John A. Logan na Janar Janar James B. McPherson, rundunar Sojojin Tarayyar ta Brigadier Janar Peter Osterhaus na McClernand ta kai hari kan kungiyar ta Confederate kuma ta sanya matsayin da Brigadier Janar Martin Green ya yi ba zai yiwu ba. Kwamandan kwamandan Janar Janar John Bowen ya janye sojojinsa daga Port Gibson a wannan dare.