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The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign during the American Civil War. After entering the state of Mississippi in late April 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army moved his force inland to strike at the strategic Mississippi River town of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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The Battle of Jackson on December 19, 1862, was a Confederate attempt to delay the movements of the Union troops towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest staged a Confederate attack at Salem Cemetery to distract Federal troops from his men destroying the Union railroad that led into Corinth, Mississippi.
Jackson, even more vulnerable, was doomed to both a battle (14 May) and, following the fall of Vicksburg, a siege (10–16 July). In the looting and destruction that followed the siege, a Union colonel from Missouri saw amid the wreckage “pianos smashed so that the ‘Bonnie Blue Flag’ may never be played on them again.”.
Jackson Battlefield. Salem Cemetery. Desperate to slow General Ulysses S. Grant's advance on the vital city of Vicksburg, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest launched an expedition in late 1862 to disrupt and sabotage vital Union railways in Tennessee.
By 10:00 am, both Union army corps were near Jackson and had engaged the enemy. Rain, Confederate resistance, and poor defenses prevented heavy fighting until around 11:00 am, when Union forces attacked in numbers and slowly but surely pushed the enemy back.
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