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The following 15 pages use this file: 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) Army of the Tennessee; Battle of Champion Hill; Battle of Jackson; Battle of Port Gibson; Battle of Raymond; Battle of Snyder's Bluff; Joseph E. Johnston; Landis's Missouri Battery; Siege of Vicksburg; Steele's Greenville expedition; Vicksburg campaign
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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 ...
The Mississippi African-American Monument, a 9-foot tall, bronze sculpture that rests on a pedestal of African black granite, and features two Black Union soldiers, and a common field hand, as ...
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 ...
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Grant's troops crossed the Mississippi River from the Louisiana side into Mississippi at a point south of Vicksburg in late April. [3] By May 18, the Union army had fought its way to Vicksburg, surrounded it, and initiated the Siege of Vicksburg. [4] During the campaign, Grant had kept a supply base at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana as part of his ...