Grant's Operations against Vicksburg

The Battle of Big Black River Bridge, or Big Black, fought May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). There are 228 days remaining. Events 1521 - execution of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, for treason 1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland. 1642 - Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (1612... May 17, 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January January 1 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War. January 1 - The first claim under the Homestead Act is made for a farm in Nebraska January 8 - Ground is broken in Sacramento... 1863, was part of the Battle of Vicksburg Conflict American Civil War Date May 18 - July 4, 1863 Place Warren County, Mississippi Result Union victory The Battle of Vicksburg was an American Civil War siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on a well-fortified west-facing cliff on the Mississippi River. The siege lasted from May 18... Vicksburg Campaign of the The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession... American Civil War. The Union Army refers to the United States Army during the American Civil War. The Union Army is also known as the , which were organized geographically, and ). Southern diplomats had been desperately trying to negotiate terms of peace, or even conditional surrender, ever since the decisive defeat that the Confederate... Union commander Insignia of a United States Air Force Major General German and it is the second highest rank. It is outranked by Rav Aluf (Lieutenant General or General). The modern day military of Germany also uses the rank of Major General, referred to as . In fiction, the best-known Major General... Major General Ulysses Simpson Grant ( April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American Civil War general and the 18th ( 1869– 1877) president of the United States. Grant won many important battles, rose to become general-in-chief of all Union armies, and is credited with winning the war. But... Ulysses S. Grant and the The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the American Civil War formed in October, 1862 and commanded by Ulysses S. Grant in the siege of Vicksburg. After Grant was promoted to commander of all Union armies in the west in October 1863, William T. Sherman was given... Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating , 1864, a Confederate Congress document , 1861 , November, 1861 Photographic History of the Civil War, 10 vols., 1912. Preventing Diplomatic Recognition of the Confederacy DocSouth: Documenting the American South - numerous online text, image, and audio collections. Categories: American Civil War | Confederate States of America ... Confederate Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. A Lieutenant General ranks immediately below a General and above a Major General. In three branches of the United States military—the Army, Marines and Air Force—a Lieutenant General is a three-star general, named for the... Lieutenant General General John C. Pemberton (Philadelphia, August 10, 1814 - Pennlyn, PA July 13, 1881), graduated from West Point, 27th in the Class of 1837. It was because of the influence of his Virginia born wife and many years of service in the southern states before the Civil War, that he became... John C. Pemberton following the Battle of Champion Hill, in the final battle before the Battle of Vicksburg Conflict American Civil War Date May 18 - July 4, 1863 Place Warren County, Mississippi Result Union victory The Battle of Vicksburg was an American Civil War siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on a well-fortified west-facing cliff on the Mississippi River. The siege lasted from May 18... Siege of Vicksburg.

Reeling from their defeat at Champion Hill, the Confederates reached Big Black River Bridge, the night of May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). There are 229 days remaining. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned first Emperor of the Latin Empire. 1527 - The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence... May 16– May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). There are 228 days remaining. Events 1521 - execution of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, for treason 1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland. 1642 - Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (1612... 17. Pemberton ordered Brig. Gen. John S. Bowen, with three brigades, to man the fortifications on the east bank of the river and impede any Union pursuit. Three divisions of Maj. Gen. John Alexander McClernand John Alexander McClernand ( May 30, 1812 – September 20, 1900) was an American soldier and lawyer. McClernand was born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in Shawneetown, Illinois, in 1832; in the same year served as a volunteer in the Blackhawk War, and... John A. McClernand’s XIII Corps moved out from Edwards Station on the morning of May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). There are 228 days remaining. Events 1521 - execution of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, for treason 1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland. 1642 - Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (1612... May 17. The corps encountered the Confederates behind breastworks of cotton bales fronted by a bayou and Categories: Military stubs | 1911 Britannica | Fortification ... abatis. They took cover as enemy artillery began firing. Union Brig. Gen. Michael K. Lawler formed his 2nd Brigade, Eugene A. Carr’s 14th Division, which surged out of a meander scar, across the front of the Confederate forces, through waist-deep water, and into the enemy’s breastworks, held by Brig. Gen. John Vaughn’s East Tennessee Brigade.

Confused and panicked, the Rebels began to withdraw across the Big Black on two bridges: the railroad bridge and the steamboat, Dot, used as a bridge across the river. As soon as they had crossed, the Confederates set fire to the bridges, preventing close Union pursuit. The fleeing Confederates who arrived in Vicksburg later that day were disorganized. The Union forces captured approximately 1,800 troops at Big Black, a loss that the Confederates could ill-afford. Fewer than half of the Confederates who had fought at Champion Hill made it into the defenses at Vicksburg. This battle sealed Vicksburg’s fate: the Confederate force was bottled up at Vicksburg.

External links

• National Park Service, Vicksburg (http://www.nps.gov/vick/vcmpgn/key.htm)
• National Park Service battle description (http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/ms010.htm)
• West Point Atlas map of Grant's advance from Jackson to Vicksburg (http://www.military.com/Resources/pics/civilwar_map21_largerview.jpg)