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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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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.
Map of Bristoe Station Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. Maj. Gen. Henry Heth's division moved to attack V Corps, but it was redirected to attack II Corps. Union artillery, including the battery of Capt. R. Bruce Ricketts, opened fire on the Confederates; and infantry fire soon was added. [7]
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Confederate garrison, Union East Gulf Blockading Squadron Confederate unknown, Union 16 [98] October 19: Buckland Mills, Virginia Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, Union Army of the Potomac 230 total [99] October 24: Washington, Louisiana Confederate District of West Louisiana, Union detachment from Army of the Gulf unknown [100] October 25
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]
Two Union gunships, USS Tahoma and USS Adela, sailed into Tampa Bay on October 16, 1863 and began a slow bombardment of Fort Brooke while staying just out of the range of the fort's batteries. [4] Two days later on October 18, a Union raiding party under Acting Master T.R. Harris secretly disembarked at Ballast Point , landing near the current ...