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Campaign, Siege and Defense of Vicksburg

Vicksburg is the Key! Grant's March through Louisiana Grant's Canal Porter's U.S. Fleet passes Vicksburg Bombardment at Grand Gulf Crossing at Bruinsburg Battle of Port Gibson Battle of Raymond
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Grant's March Through Louisiana

March 29 - April 30, 1863

The spring of 1863 signaled the beginning of the final and, for the Union, the successful phase of the Vicksburg Campaign as General Grant launched his Army of the Tennessee on a march down the west side of the Mississippi River from Milliken's Bend to Hard Times, Louisiana. Leaving their encampments on March 29, Union soldiers took up the line of march and slogged southward over a muddy road. Building bridges and corduroying roads, Grant's column pushed first to New Carthage then to Hard Times where the infantrymen rendezvoused with the Union fleet.

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Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Start of Grant's March through Louisiana, March 29, 1863 97k,  Large Format
Louisiana Bayou Expeditions, March 29-April 29, 1863 101k,   Large Format

 

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Last update: Monday, January 22, 2001
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Editor: G. Zeman

 

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