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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 90 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 84 10 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 78 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 74 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 48 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 38 0 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 36 0 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 31 1 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 30 0 Browse Search
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. 29 3 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2.. You can also browse the collection for Port Gibson (Mississippi, United States) or search for Port Gibson (Mississippi, United States) in all documents.

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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