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Civil War Home: Organization of the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, May 19–July 4, 1863. -- The Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Siege of Vicksburg: Confederate order of battle). National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Troops in the Campaign, Siege and Defense of Vicksburg).
Claudius Wistar Sears (November 8, 1817 – February 15, 1891) was a United States Army officer, an educator, and a Confederate general during the American Civil War.. During the war, Sears was part of the Confederate garrison that was captured following the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863, and would be wounded twice in combat.
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Archinal enlisted in the 30th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in August 1861, becoming a Corporal in Company I. On May 22, 1863, during the campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi, he participated in an assault on Confederate positions that was considered a "forlorn hope", [1] meaning the soldiers taking part in it would have little chance of surviving.
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 ...
Bust of John S. Bowen by Anton Schaaf at Vicksburg National Military Park, dedicated 1916. John Stevens Bowen (October 30, 1830 – July 13, 1863) was an American career Army officer who later became a general in the Confederate Army and a commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Civil War Home: Organization of the Union Army At Vicksburg May 19–July 4, 1863 -- The Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Siege of Vicksburg: Union order of battle). National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Troops in the Campaign, Siege and Defense of Vicksburg).
On May 22, 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant ordered an assault on the Confederate heights at Vicksburg, Mississippi. [1] The plan called for a storming party of volunteers to build a bridge across a moat and plant scaling ladders against the enemy embankment in advance of the main attack.