Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin basasar Amurka, Grand Gulf ya kasance wurin da aka ci karo da shi. 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 yakin Grand Gulf
ya mayar da sojojinsa na mamayewa kuma bai bari sojojinsa su wuce arewacin kogin Mississippi ba. Grant sa'an nan kuma ya jagoranci sojojinsa zuwa kudu zuwa Bruinsburg, ya yi yaƙi da Port Gibson, kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa Vicksburg.