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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
ite unconscious that his chief had already been made a fugitive by the very-troops he was about to fall upon. Champion Hills battle-ground. A branch of Baker's Creek was so swollen by the rains that he was delayed until the afternoon, when he advanced four or five miles to a strong position on broken ground, near the railway, and not far from Baker's Creek, known as the Champion Hills, where he received a note from Johnston directing him to move northward, so as to form a junction with that officer's shattered forces. Pemberton at once sent his trains back to the Big Black, and was about to follow with his troops, when he found Grant close upon him,oss it if possible. In his flight, and in this instant pursuit, Pemberton lost many of his troops made prisoners. Thus ended the battle of Champion Hills, or Baker's Creek, as it is sometimes called, it having been fought near that stream. It was fought mainly, Grant said in his report, by General Hovey's division of McClernand'