The Battle of Champion Hill, also known as the Battle of Champion's Hill and the Battle of Baker's Creek, of May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. U
The soldier in our Civil War a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861 1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor,
The Coker House, a part of the battlefield
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Army of the Tennessee
Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
The Vicksburg campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominated the last Confedera
Battle of Champion Hill
…Battle of Champion Hill, also known as the Battle of Champion's Hill and the Battle of Baker's Creek, of May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Union Army commander Major General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate…
Lithograph of the Mississippi River Squadron running the Confederate blockade at Vicksburg on April 16, 1863
Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, CSA
View of Vicksburg vicinity and fortifications, 1863