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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 ...
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 ...
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).
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In the Siege of Vicksburg, 18 May – 4 July 1863, the 3rd Louisiana Infantry commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Russell and seconded by Major Pierson was in Hebert's brigade of John Horace Forney's division. During the siege, the brigade suffered losses of 219 killed, 455 wounded, and 21 missing. [36]
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).
Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, waged from March 29 to July 4, 1863. The park, located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, flanking the Mississippi River, also commemorates the greater Vicksburg Campaign which led up to the battle. Reconstructed forts and trenches evoke memories of the ...
Pemberton as Commander of the Army of Vicksburg Siege of Vicksburg; positions from June 25 to July 4, 1863. On October 10, 1862, Pemberton was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, [3] and assigned to defend the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the Mississippi River, known as the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana ...