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Confederate forces place stakes in river to help aim their guns at Union ships. September 10, 1863: Battle of Bayou Fourche: Arkansas: B: Union: Union victory allows for capture of Little Rock. September 10 –11, 1863: Battle of Davis's Cross Roads: Georgia: C: Union: Union forces establish defensive positions prior to Chickamauga. September ...
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...
After a victory at the Battle of Corydon, Morgan proceeded eastward into Ohio, pursued by U.S. troops under Brig. Gen. James M. Shackelford. On July 19, Morgan attempted to cross the Ohio River into West Virginia at Buffington Island, upriver from Pomeroy in Meigs County, Ohio. Some Confederates successfully fled across the river and to ...
Union Department of the Northwest, Dakotas (Sisseton and Wahpeton tribes) Union 7, Dakotas 80 [76] July 26: Salineville, Ohio Confederate cavalry, Union cavalry Confederate 364, Union none [77] July 26: Dead Buffalo, North Dakota Union Department of the Northwest, Dakota (Sisseton and Yanktonais tribes) and Teton Lakota (Hunkpapa and Blackfeet ...
Morgan's Raid (also the Calico Raid or Great Raid of 1863) was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863.
The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign during the American Civil War.After entering the state of Mississippi in late April 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army moved his force inland to strike at the strategic Mississippi River town of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault on 3 July 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg.It was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee as part of his plan to break through Union lines and achieve a decisive victory in the North.
Bailey, Joe R. "Union Lifeline in Tennessee: A Military History of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad," Tennessee Historical Quarterly (2008) 67#2 pp. 106–123 in JSTOR; Bearss, Edwin C. "Grierson's Winter Raid on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad," Military Affairs (1960) 24#1 pp. 20–37 in JSTOR; Black III, Robert C. "Railroads in the ...