Fort Pemberton is a historic artillery battery located at Leflore County, Greenwood, Mississippi.

[1] In the winter of 1862–1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant commanding the Army of the Tennessee conducted a series of operations to approach and capture the fortified city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, known as "The Gibraltar of the Confederacy".

[2][3] Since the city's fortifications on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River were formidable, Grant tried other alternatives that wouldn't require a direct approach under the Confederate guns.

Termed "Grant's bayou operations", the idea was to find or construct alternative water routes so that troops could be brought within striking distance of Vicksburg.

There, Loring's men hastily built fortifications at an approximate 45-degree angle from northeast to southwest, made of cotton bales and logs covered by layers of dirt, with parapets ten feet high.