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Map of Pine Bluff Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. After the capture of Little Rock on September 10, 1863, Union forces occupied several towns along the Arkansas. Confederate Brigadier-General John S. Marmaduke, commanding a cavalry division, decided to test their strength at Pine Bluff.
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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 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.
In April 1863 Union forces of the Indian Home Guard under Colonel William A. Phillips occupied Fort Gibson. [2] Upon hearing reports of no Confederate activity in all directions Philips sent the fort's livestock to graze. A Union sentry failed to scout a mountain road and Confederate forces therefore descended on the livestock. [3]
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The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga (Southern Illinois University Press, 2020), online book review; Powell, David A., and David A. Friedrichs. The Maps of Chickamauga: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 – September 23, 1863. New York: Savas Beatie, 2009. ISBN 978-1-932714-72-2.
Rosecrans followed and captured that city on September 8, 1863. Maneuvering then continued in the Chickamauga Campaign. Rosecrans was frustrated that the victory at Hoover's Gap and the Tullahoma Campaign were overshadowed by two other Union victories in the summer of 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg and Battle of Gettysburg. [7]