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The Battle of Champion Hill (aka Champion's Hill) [3] of May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Union Army commander Major General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate States Army under Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton and defeated it twenty miles to the east of Vicksburg ...
Jackson: 24: Champion Hill Battlefield: Champion Hill Battlefield. October 7, 1971 ... approximately .75 mi. W of jct. of MS 18 and MS 467:
The following Confederate Army units [1] and commanders fought in the Battle of Champion Hill of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization, [ 2 ] returns of casualties [ 3 ] and reports.
During the retreat from Champion Hill battlefield, one division of Pemberton's army, commanded by Major General William W. Loring, was cut off from Pemberton's main body. Pemberton, retreating westwards towards Vicksburg, did not know the location of Loring's division, and he held a bridgehead on the east side of the Big Black River to cover ...
John C. Pemberton at Vicksburg National Military Park. Vicksburg: Cedar Hill Cemetery: Soldiers' Rest Confederate Monument (1893), where an estimated 5,000 Confederate soldiers are buried. [32] Vicksburg National Military Park: Kentucky memorial composed of bronze statues of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, both native Kentuckians. [33]
Loxahatchee Battlefield's listing on the National Register of Historic Places caps 18 years of work by Palm Beach County parks officials, who think it may boost tourism.
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868 acres (3.51 km 2) at Champion Hill, Mississippi; Using an easement rather than acquiring the land, the Trust protected 144 acres (0.58 km 2) at the heart of the Champion Hill battlefield in 2007. This key portion of the field is still owned by the Champion family, for whom the area and the battle were named, but now is under conservation ...