Ka kammala wannan magana: A lokacin yakin basasa na Amurka, Grand Gulf ya kasance wurin da aka yi gwagwarmaya da yawa. A shekara ta 1862, Admiral David Farragut ya yi ƙoƙari ya dauki jiragen ruwa na jiragen ruwa na Union da suka wuce Grand Gulf don kai hari ga Vicksburg. 'Yan bindiga sun harbe shi daga Grand Gulf, wanda ya sa Janar Thomas Williams yayi kokarin kona garin. Mazauna yankin sun tabbatar masa cewa harbin bindigar bai fito daga mazauna garin ba kuma an tsallake shi. Duk da haka, 'yan makonni bayan haka, sojojin Union sun ƙone garin. A lokacin yakin Vicksburg na Ulysses S. Grant, sojojin Tarayya a lokacin Yaƙin Grand Gulf sun kori rundunarsa ta mamayewa kuma ba su bari sojojinsa su wuce arewa a Kogin Mississippi ba. Grant sa'an nan ya dauki sojojinsa kudu zuwa Bruinsburg, ya yi yaƙi da
Yaƙin Port Gibson, kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa Vicksburg.