Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Sabon rago ya shiga cikin Admiral David Dixon Porter's Mississippi Squadron sama da Vicksburg a kan lokaci don shahararren dash a ranar 16 ga Afrilu 1863 ta hanyar batir mai mutuwa wanda ya kare babban sansanin soja. Jirgin ruwa na gunboats sun shiga cikin bindigogi na kudancin yayin da suke kiwon garuruwan sojojin ta hanyar gauntlet zuwa New Carthage. Ram "Janar Sterling Price" an ɗaure shi a gefen dama na "Lafayette" don wucewa. An rufe jiragen ruwa da manyan katako da ƙwarya na ɗanyen ciyawa, wanda hakan ya zama kāriya mai kyau. Kowace jirgi, sai dai, kuma ya jawo jirgin kwal. "Lafayette", wanda aka hana shi ta hanyar jirgin da aka rataye a gefensa, ya sami "tasiri" tara "tasiri" ta hanyar casemate kuma ya sa jirgin ruwan kwal ya nutse. Ko da yake a karkashin wuta na tsawon sa'o'i biyu da rabi, duk jiragen ruwa na rundunar sun kasance a shirye don aiki a cikin rabin sa'a bayan wucewa. Nasarar da tawagar ta samu ta wuce batir mai nauyi ya ba da gudummawa ga kamawar farko na
Grand Gulf, a ƙarshe faɗuwar Vicksburg kanta, kuma a ƙarshe mamayar dukan Kogin Mississippi.