Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: July 15, 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9781932714005
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Battles & campaigns; Civil war; c 1700 to c 1800; History: World; History; History - Military / War; USA; United States - Civil War; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); General
First sentence: VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, IS DEFINED BY ITS PAST.
Description: 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.