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Furgurson, Ernest B. Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave. New York: Knopf, 1992. ISBN 0-394-58301-9; Gallagher, Gary W. "East of Chancellorsville: Jubal A. Early at Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church" in Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
The Chickamauga Campaign: Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-328-7. Robertson, William Glenn. River of Death: the Chickamauga Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press ...
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 ...
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 ...
Union Department of the Northwest, Dakotas (Sisseton and Wahpeton tribes) Union 7, Dakotas 80 [76] July 26: Salineville, Ohio Confederate cavalry, Union cavalry Confederate 364, Union none [77] July 26: Dead Buffalo, North Dakota Union Department of the Northwest, Dakota (Sisseton and Yanktonais tribes) and Teton Lakota (Hunkpapa and Blackfeet ...
Shelby's Raid, also known as Shelby's Great Raid [1], was a Confederate cavalry incursion into Arkansas and Missouri during the American Civil War in 1863. Led by Colonel Joseph Orville Shelby, the raid took place from August 21, 1863, to November 3, 1863, covering over 800 miles across territories in west central and northwest Arkansas, as well as southwest and west central Missouri.
The Confederates had repulsed all of the Union assaults to that point, and it was approaching nightfall. [103] The 24th Arkansas Infantry had arrived, but the Confederates had received no other reinforcements. At around 4:30 pm, white flags of surrender began to fly from the fort. [104] The Union troops were preparing for a final assault at ...
On April 30, 1863, a Union army commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant began crossing onto the east side of the Mississippi River as part of a campaign against Vicksburg. After engaging and defeating Confederate forces in several intermediate battles, Grant's army defeated Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton 's troops at the decisive ...