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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.
Full Civil War Map. The Battle of Jackson on December 19, 1862, was a Confederate attempt to delay the movements of the Union troops towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. Gen.
17 Μαρ 2024 · On the morning of April 30, 1863, roughly 23,000 Union soldiers disembarked from barges at Bruinsburg, Mississippi during the largest amphibious offensive in American history prior to the invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II.
Chris Mackowski’s new The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863, highlights this action’s crucial role in Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign. This study is packed with vivid descriptions and solid analysis, and it is a tremendous addition to Savas Beatie’s line of important Civil War studies, in general, and its new Battles & Leaders ...
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.
“A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account” of this important yet overlooked Civil War battle (Civil War News). Jackson, Mississippi, was the third Confederate state capital to fall to Union forces.
Vicksburg and Jackson were key parts of the transportation hub for supplies from Western Trans-Mississippi region to the Confederate armies and the world markets on which the South’s tenuous economy depended. Despite this, the Eastern armies under Robert E. Lee received the greater share of men and resources.
