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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg. (search)
es of Grand Gulf, and passed that point with his fleet. This was on the 29th of April. On the next day he crossed the river at Bruinsburg and obtained a lodgment on the eastern shore. Then followed in rapid succession the defeat of Bowen at Port Gibson on May 1st, the defeat of General Gregg at Raymond on the 12th, and the capture of Jackson on the 14th. Meantime General Pemberton had left Jackson and gone to Vicksburg. The writer followed him, after having laid out a line of defenses around Jackson, leaving them to be constructed by Captain Thyssens. General Pemberton first thought that Grant would turn north from Port Gibson and try to force a passage across Big Black River at one of the ferries. He accordingly sent about a brigade eachtoHankinson's, Hall's, and Baldwin's ferr ies, and Cave near the machine-shop. ordered field-works to be thrown up at these crossings. After taking measures to establish works for the defense of the important points on our main line of co
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.69 (search)
are. from a War-time sketch. solid base. Bayou Pierre enters the Mississippi just above Bruinsbur in order to intercept us they had to go by Port Gibson, the nearest point where there was a bridged McClernand was pushed on, hoping to reach Port Gibson and save the bridge spanning the Bayou Pier in time to render much assistance south of Port Gibson. Two brigades of McPherson's corps followednt selected by Bowen to defend, the road to Port Gibson divides, taking two ridges, which do not ditil night overtook us, about two miles from Port Gibson; then the troops went into bivouac for the uilding a bridge elsewhere. Before leaving Port Gibson we were reinforced by Crocker's division, Muld be spared to observe them. It was at Port Gibson I first heard through a Southern paper of tay the least, in meeting them in detail: at Port Gibson, 7000 or 8000; at Raymond, 5000; at Jacksonis time was:    Killed.Wounded.Missing. Port Gibson 13171925 South Fork, Bayou Pierre     1   [3 more...
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in the Vicksburg campaign: May 1st-July 4th, 1863. (search)
, Lieut.-Col. John H. Kelly. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 15; w, 66 =81. Champion's Hill, k, 6; wLieut.-Col. William F. Vilas. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, w, 8. Champion's Hill, w, 16. Big Black Brhio, Col. William H. Raynor. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 16; w, 62; m, 11 = 89. Champion's Hill,guns), Maj. Maurice Maloney. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 28; w, 134=162. Champion's Hill, k, 1; . Harris, Maj. Arthur Platt. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 13; w, 88 = 101. Big Black Bridge, k, 2Ind., Capt. Martin Klauss. Artillery loss: Port Gibson, k, 2. Big Black Bridge, k, 1. Vicksburg, Co. Ohio Cav., Capt. John S. Foster. Loss: Port Gibson, w, 1. Third division, Maj.-Gen. John A.ieut.-Col. William P. Davis. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 5; w, 27=32. Raymond, k, 35; w, 175; mhio, Col. Benjamin F. Potts. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 1; w, 8; m, 2 = 11. Raymond, k, 18; w,apt. William S. Williamls. Artillery loss: Port Gibson, w, 2. Raymond, w, 1. Champion's Hill, k, [7 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Confederate forces: Lieut.-General John C. Pemberton. (search)
on; 46th Ala., Col. Michael L. Woods (c), Capt. George E. Brewer; Ala. Battery, Capt. James F. Waddell. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 18; w, 112; m, 142=272. Champion's Hill, k, 53; w, 152; m, 609 =814. Vicksburg (siege), k, 79; w, 177; m, 7 = 263.Adaire (w), Capt. Thomas P. Nelson; 46th Miss., Col. C. W. Sears; Tenn. Battery, Capt. Thomas F. Tobin. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 12; w, 48; m, 27 = 87. Vaughn's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. J. C. Vaughn: 60th Tenn., Capt. J. W. Bachman; 61st Tenn., Lie. Battery, Capt. John C. Landis, Lieut. John M. Langan; Mo. Battery, (Wade's), Lieut. Richard C. Walsh. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 13; w, 97; m, 96= 206. Champion's Hill, k, 65; w, 293; m, 242 = 600. Big Black Bridge, k, 2. Vicksburg (siege), k,. Dawson; Mo. Battery (Lowe's), Lieutenant Thomas B. Catron; Stirman's Battalion, Colonel Ras. Stirman. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 17; w, 83; in, 122 =222. Champion's Hill, k, 65; w, 137; m, 65 =268. Big Black Bridge, k, 1; w, 9; m, 1012 = 1022.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
crosses the Mississippi, 603. battle near Port Gibson, 604. March of the Nationals toward Jackso(half-way between Grand Gulf and Rodney) to Port Gibson or the Bayou. Pierre, in rear of Grand Guld, was landed, it was pushed forward toward Port Gibson with three days rations, followed by the Seon to the parting of roads, four miles from Port Gibson, each running along a ridge with deep holloessed the foe on its front steadily back to Port Gibson, while the latter was unable to move forwar afternoon, with heavy loss, and pursued to Port Gibson. Night coming on, the Nationals halted andederates there, flanked by the Nationals at Port Gibson, had joined with the defeated troops in theng re-enforcements from the Confederates at Port Gibson. Grant, as we have observed, had expecte Yankees had been whipped at Grand Gulf and Port Gibson, and were falling back to seek the protectieneral John Bowen, who had been driven from Port Gibson, led his center, and General Carter L. Stev
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 23: siege and capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. (search)
heir way rejoicing to Johnston at Jackson. The spoils of the great victory were more important in character and number than any that had yet been won during the war. General Grant thus stated the result of the operations of his army from Port Gibson to Vicksburg :--The result of this campaign has been the defeat of the enemy in five battles outside of Vicksburg; the occupation of Jackson, the capital of the State of Mississippi, and the capture of Vicksburg and its garrison, and munitionsto our hands, besides a large amount of other public property, consisting of railroads, locomotives, cars, steamboats, cotton, &c., and much was destroyed to prevent our capturing it. He summed up his loss, in the series of battles known as Port Gibson, Fourteen Mile Creek (skirmish), Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Big Black railroad bridge, and Vicksburg, at 9,855, of whom 1,223 were killed, 7,095 wounded, and 537 missing. Of the wounded, he said, many were but slightly wounded, and cont
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
2.181,182; campaign of the Army of Virginia under, 2.442-2.463; unwillingness of McClellan to support (note), 2.462. Pope Pius IX., the Confederacy recognized by, 3.47. Porter, Admiral David D., operations of against the forts below New Orleans, 2.331; at the siege of Vicksburg, 2.621; force under in the Red River expedition, 3.253; difficulties of in descending the Red River from Grand Ecore, 3.266. Porter, Gen., at Bull Run, 1.596, 606; at the battle of Gaines's Farm, 2.422. Port Gibson, battle of, 2.604. Port Hudson, Farragut's attempt to pass the batteries at, 2.598; investment of by Gen. Banks, 2.601; investment of, 2.631; general assault on the defenses of, 2.632; attempt to carry the works by storm, 2.635; surrender of after the fall of Vicksburg, 2.637. Port Republic, Stonewall Jackson at, 2.397; battle of, 2.399. Port Royal expedition, 2.115, 128. Port Royal Ferry expedition, 2.127; battle at, 2.128. Potomac River, blockaded by the Confederates, 2.1
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 28: passage of the fleet by Vicksburg and capture of Grand Gulf.--capture of Alexandria, etc. (search)
reader will readily understand that a campaign such as is here described must have been a failure without the assistance of the Navy. In default of credit from the military historians, the officers and men of the Navy must rely on the reports of their own chiefs to do them justice. The night following the attack on Grand Gulf information was obtained from a negro, that there was a good landing at Bruensburg, six miles below Grand Gulf, and that from Bruensburg an excellent road led to Port Gibson. twelve miles in the interior. In consequence of this information the gun-boats and transports were next morning crowded with troops, and steamed down the river. About noon, Grant disembarked thirty-two thousand men with four days rations, and without transportation determined to live upon the enemy, as he was satisfied the supply of provisions in the district was ample to meet all his requirements. Here Grant started on that remarkable march against an enemy who outnumbered numbered
William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil., Chapter 5: (search)
write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say one word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I thought it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong. Other men, soldiers and civilians, ignorant of the difficulties and obstacles to be encountered, had made plans for taking Vicksburg, but few were so frank as President Lincoln, who, from that hour, had the fullest confidence in Gra
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 14 (search)
's Bluff crosses the Mississippi at Hankinson's Ferry fight at Port Gibson fight at Raymond fight at and capture of Jackson battle of Che hamlet of Bruinsburg, half way down to Rodney, running back to Port Gibson, in the rear of Grand Gulf, the General decided to cross at thisdays rations in their haversacks, and pushing out on the road to Port Gibson, followed by the 17th corps. Meantime, Gen. Sherman, with theed till morning; when McClernand advanced, and, when approaching Port Gibson, was resisted with spirit by a Rebel force from Vicksburg, undernoon, the enemy was defeated with heavy loss, and pursued toward Port Gibson. Our loss was 130 killed, 718 wounded. We captured 3 guns, 4 fll morning; when it was found that the enemy had retreated across Bayou Pierre, burning the bridge behind them, abandoning Port Gibson, and evaPort Gibson, and evacuating Grand Gulf; as our army advanced May 3. in its rear to Hankinson's Ferry on the Big Black, skirmishing and taking some prisoners,
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