Bruinsburg

The landing ground is private, and the town was gone by 1865, so the marker stands in Port Gibson, not at the river. On April 30, 1863, Union gunboats had failed to silence the Confederate guns at Grand Gulf, and Grant shifted his troops downriver to Bruinsburg, where nobody opposed them. By late afternoon about 22,000 men were ashore. The next morning they were fighting on the road to Port Gibson, the first step in the march that ended at Vicksburg.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Windsor Ruins — 8.7 mi
  Twenty-three standing Corinthian columns left by an 1890 fire, the largest antebellum mansion in Mississippi, built with enslaved labor on a 2,600-acre cotton plantation.
• Alcorn State University and Oakland Memorial Chapel — 11 mi
  The 1871 Reconstruction college on the old Oakland College campus, first led by Hiram Revels, with the 1838 chapel built by Black craftsmen.
• Lake Bruin State Park — 13 mi
  A state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.
• Mount Locust — 22 mi
  A 1780s Natchez Trace inn and cotton farm at milepost 15.5, with an enslaved people's cemetery of 43 graves and a brick kiln behind the house.

More markers nearby

• Port Gibson — steps away
• The Bernheimer Complex — steps away
• Battle of Port Gibson — steps away
• First Baptist M.B. Church — 0.2 mi