No reinforcements arrived after the first appearance of the British fleet.
Grant then settled down to a siege, and Lincoln and Halleck now sent him ample reinforcements.
Continual reinforcements came to the North throughout the night, not a soldier came to the South.
Perceiving that it was impossible with their small number to dislodge us, the watch sent for reinforcements.
Again they charged, and again were driven back; and when the battle once more began the Union reinforcements had arrived.
Onward they sped, and Duke was encouraged by the sight and sound of these reinforcements to increase his own outrageous clamours and to press home his attack.
When he reached Grand Gulf, however, he found that he would be obliged to wait a month, in order to obtain the reinforcements which he expected from General Banks at Port Hudson.
The arrival of the reinforcements and the proof of skill and vigour given by the English leader, together with the terror caused by the terrible effect of the English arrows, shook the resolution of Don Louis and his troops.
With him were Commander David D. Porter, in charge of a mortar flotilla of nineteen schooners and six armed steamships, and General Benjamin F. Butler, at the head of an army contingent of six thousand men, soon to be followed by considerable reinforcements.
He never dreamed of any one coming out to fight him, but said that he was rather going up to view the place; and if he waited for his reinforcements, it was not in order to make victory secure in case he should be compelled to engage, but to be enabled to surround and storm the city.