Winner, Non-Fiction, 2005, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters
The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The May 16, 1863, fighting took place...
Winner, Non-Fiction, 2005, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters
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...