General Ord accused the commander (General Lauman) of having disregarded his orders, and attributed to him personally the disaster and heavy loss of men.

He requested his relief, which I granted, and General Lauman went to the rear, and never regained his division.

He died after the war, in Iowa, much respected, as before that time he had been universally esteemed a most gallant and excellent officer.
The weather was fearfully hot, but we continued to press the siege day and night, using our artillery pretty freely; and on the morning of July 17th the place was found evacuated.

General Steele's division was sent in pursuit as far as Brandon (fourteen miles), but General Johnston had carried his army safely off, and pursuit in that hot weather would have been fatal to my command.
Reporting the fact to General Grant, he ordered me to return, to send General Parkes's corps to Haines's Bluff, General Ord's back to Vicksburg, and he consented that I should encamp my whole corps near the Big Black, pretty much on the same ground we had occupied before the movement, and with the prospect of a period of rest for the remainder of the summer.

We reached our camps on the 27th of July.
Meantime, a division of troops, commanded by Brigadier-General W.
Sooy Smith, had been added to my corps.