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Illinois Route 64 (IL 64, Illinois 64) is an east–west state highway in Northern Illinois. Its western terminus is at the Iowa state line, connecting with U.S. Route 52 (US 52) and Iowa Highway 64 via the Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial Bridge at the Mississippi River west of Savanna .
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.
Hicken, Victor, Illinois in the Civil War, University of Illinois Press. 1991. ISBN 0-252-06165-9. Jones, James Pickett (1995). Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era. SIU Press. p. 91ff. Jordan, Brian Matthew. Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War (WW Norton & Company, 2015)
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 ...
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 ...
Vicksburg was strategically vital to the Confederates. Jefferson Davis said, "Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together." [4] While in their hands, it blocked Union navigation down the Mississippi; together with control of the mouth of the Red River and of Port Hudson to the south, it allowed communication with the states west of the river, upon which the ...
Near Elizabeth, Illinois: Black Hawk War: United States Victory 1+ United States vs Sauk and Fox: Illinois Mormon War: June 10, 1844 - September 16, 1846 Nauvoo, Illinois: Illinois Victory ~10 Illinois and Illinois Militia vs Nauvoo Legion: Charleston riot: March 28, 1864 Charleston, Illinois: Civil War: 9 Union Army vs Copperheads: Haymarket ...
22 March 1863: Near Deer Creek 19 April – 2 May 1863: Demonstration on Haines' and Drumgould's Bluffs 2–14 May 1863: Movement to Jackson, Mississippi, via Grand Gulf 14 May 1863: Jackson 16 May 1863: Champion Hill [10] 18 May – 4 July 1863: Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi 19 & 22 May 1863: Assaults on Vicksburg [4] [6] 4 July 1863 ...