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7 unusual facts about Vicksburg Campaign


Abbeville, Mississippi

During the American Civil War, Abbeville was almost completely destroyed in the Vicksburg Campaign.

Battle of Palmito Ranch

The 34th Indiana, 400 strong, was an experienced infantry regiment that had seen combat in the Vicksburg Campaign and had been reorganized in December 1863 as a "Veteran" regiment, re-enlisting veteran troops of several regiments whose original enlistments had expired.

John McLeod Murphy

He took command of gunboat Carondelet 4 March 1863, skippering that ship during the joint Army‑Navy Expedition in Steele's Bayou under Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, 18 to 24 March, in which he landed with two boat howitzers and 300 men near Rolling Fork to hold that place until the Union ships could cover it with their guns# One of his officers was Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Julius H. Kroehl.

Pacific Pearl Company

After Kroehl recovered sufficiently from malaria he contracted while serving the Union Navy during the Vicksburg Campaign, he began designing and building a vessel at Ariel Patterson's Shipyard near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Port Gibson, Mississippi

Port Gibson was the site of several clashes during the American Civil War and figured in Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.

Thomas W. Knox

Knox was well known for his written attacks on William Tecumseh Sherman and his Union soldiers, which reintroduced into the public debate the issue of Sherman's sanity, and also was controversial for its publishing of important information pertaining to the Vicksburg Campaign.

Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier

The remains were discovered in late 1979 by Ben Akselson of Beaumont Tx member of the SCV and Rick Forte, Chairman of the Combined Boards of Beauvoir on a battlefield of the Vicksburg Campaign.


Hiram B. Granbury

Granbury and his regiment served in north Mississippi with General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee during the Vicksburg Campaign.


see also

Andrew Hickenlooper

Bearss, Edwin C., The Vicksburg Campaign, 3 volumes, Morningside Press, 1991, ISBN 0-89029-308

Battle of Jackson

Battle of Jackson, Mississippi (May 14, 1863), part of the Vicksburg Campaign in the American Civil War