Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
by Timothy B. Smith, Ph.D.
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The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The May 16, 1863, fighting took place just 20 miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Federal army attacked Gen. John C. Pemberton's hastily gathered Confederates. The bloody fighting seesawed back and forth until superior Union leadership broke apart the Southern line, sending Pemberton's army into headlong retreat. The victory on Mississippi's wooded hills sealed the fate of both Vicksburg and her large field army, propelled Grant into the national spotlight, and earned him the command of the entire U.S. armed forces.
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Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
January 2006
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July 15, 2004, Savas Beatie
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"VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, IS DEFINED BY ITS PAST."
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