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- Grant’s Failed Second Assault upon Vicksburg
  19 hours ago
  May 22, 1863 (Friday) General Grant’s attack upon the Vicksburg defenses on the 19th had not gone well at all. Nothing was gained because two of his three corps were not ready to launch an attack. Taking a couple of days to rethink the plan, the approaches, and to allow his men to crawl into
- Many a One Will Get to Hell Before he Does to Port Hudson
  2 days ago
  May 21, 1863 (Thursday) Despite his wayward campaign through western Louisiana, Nathaniel Banks was back. He may have undertaken what General-in-Chief Henry Halleck had called “eccentric movements” that were of “secondary importance,” all throughout April and much of May, but now he was back on track and ready to once again try to take Port
- Johnston: ‘I am Trying to Gather a Force to Relieve You’
  3 days ago
  May 20, 1863 (Wednesday) In the battle for Vicksburg, Mississippi, there were two very divergent and contradictory Confederate strategies at work. General John Pemberton, who had commanded the Army of Mississippi in the field while Grant’s Federals gallivanted across the state, believed that Vicksburg itself was the key. The city had to be saved, otherwise
- Grant’s Failed First Assault upon Vicksburg
  4 days ago
  May 19, 1863 (Tuesday) General Grant rightly believed it had been a rout. The Rebels under John Pemberton were divided and thrown back at Champion Hill, and then soundly thrashed the next day at Big Black River Bridge. In their short tramp to the defenses of Vicksburg, Pemberton’s Confederates shed stragglers in droves. They were
- You Must Ultimately Surrender – The Siege of Vicksburg Begins
  5 days ago
  May 18, 1863 (Monday) As the beaten Confederate Army under John Pemberton streamed back into the Vicksburg defenses, General Grant was hot on their heels. He saw no reason to move otherwise. By this time, he knew that he had blocked any hope Pemberton held of joining with Joe Johnston’s troops north of Jackson. The
- Big Black River Bridge – Pemberton’s Last Stand
  6 days ago
  May 17, 1863 (Sunday) General John C. Pemberton waited through the night, as Edward’s Station burned upon the eastern horizon, like some hellish perpetual sunrise. With his back to the Big Black River, fifteen miles from Vicksburg, he waited for General William Loring’s Division, which had been acting as his rear guard following the retreat
- Champion Hill – Surprise, Out Flank and Divide
  7 days ago
  May 16, 1863 (Saturday) General Grant was roused from his slumber in Clinton, Mississippi by two men who worked for the Jackson & Vicksburg Railroad. His Army of the Tennessee had torched Jackson, the state capital, the day before and were now heading back east towards Vicksburg, following the line upon which these two gentlemen
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