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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 ...
Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, waged from March 29 to July 4, 1863. The park, located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, flanking the Mississippi River, also commemorates the greater Vicksburg Campaign which led up to the battle. Reconstructed forts and trenches evoke memories of the ...
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Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Louisiana state seal belt buckle with musket.From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs 4th Louisiana Infantry Regimental Monument at Vicksburg National Military Park Louisiana monument at Vicksburg National Military Park
99th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Monument at Vicksburg National Military Park across the ravine from the Railroad Redoubt (2019) Captain Isaac G. Hodgen of Co. A, 99th Illinois Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.
Vicksburg was strategically vital to the Confederates. Jefferson Davis said, "Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together." [4] While in their hands, it blocked Union navigation down the Mississippi; together with control of the mouth of the Red River and of Port Hudson to the south, it allowed communication with the states west of the river, upon which the ...
During the Civil War, the unit earned its motto "First at Vicksburg". It participated in the battles of Haynes Bluffs, Champion Hill, Black River, and on 19 May 1863 took part in the assault at Vicksburg. During the battle, the 13th Regiment was the only Union unit to plant its colors on the Confederate positions.