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Topic: Battle of Champion Hill

	Chapter XXXV. Grant, Ulysses S. 1885–86. Personal Memoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Champion’s Hill, where Pemberton had chosen his position to receive us, whether taken by accident or design, was well selected.
		The battle of Champion’s Hill lasted about four hours, hard fighting, preceded by two or three hours of skirmishing, some of which almost rose to the dignity of battle.
		While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.
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	The Battle Of Champion's Hill, A Detailed Description
		Stevenson formed on the left, or north end, of the ridge, with his left anchored on Champion Hill; Bowen occupied the center; and Loring was on the right, blocking the direct road from Raymond.
		Learning from observers atop Champion Hill that the Federals were extending their line west from the Jackson Road to overlap his left and threaten his rear, Lee shifted his five Alabama regiments a short distance to the west.
		Battle scars remained visible on the trees for several decades, but the trampled bushes either recovered or were replaced by new growth.
	www.civilwarhome.com /championhillarticle.htm (7296 words)

	990331ENchisolm.HTML
		Champion Hill is right between Jackson and Vicksburg, 17 miles from the heart of Jackson, and it is the same distance to the heart of Vicksburg.
		The casualties at Champion Hill were the highest of the campaign, to that point.
		One thing that makes Champion Hill the forgotten and not the vanished battle is the fact that the area has not been developed, yet.
	www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/99/9903/990331/990331ENchisolm.HTML (1078 words)

	mcdonald
		The battle was fought at the mouth of a lane and a man lived on that lane by the name of Britton, hence the Battle of Britton's Lane.
		Champion that lived on the battle field, and she said "yes sir, I am the woman" I asked her is she was there during the fight.
		The Confederates had selected the most commanding hills and ridges about two miles out from town and had them well fortified and supplied with guns, and of course we had to occupy high ground within range of their works in order to do any execution, and fortify, which was mostly done at night.
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	Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg - Dispatch Depot Message Board
		Champion Hill is a detailed tactical level description of the battle, which occurred on May 16, 1863 on the eponymous hill located over 20 miles east of Vicksburg.
		In the aftermath of the battle, Hovey’s Division, which had suffered a disproportionate number of casualties, remained behind to tend to the wounded and the prisoners, and to bury the dead.
		Smith points out that Champion Hill was the most important and decisive battle of the Vicksburg Campaign, although he stops short of calling it the most important battle of the entire Civil War.
	civilwartalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=23256 (3993 words)

	The Battle of Champion Hill
		Champion Hill, the decision battle of the Vicksburg Campaign, began about 7:00 a.m.
		Confederate troops were shifted to the left to cover Champion Hill and protect the vital crossroads.
		The fighting was intense as the battle raged on Champion Hill.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /_122199/battleofchampionhill.htm (1013 words)

	The Battle of Champion Hill - William C. Everhart
		Events preceding the battle of Champion's Hill emphasized the opposing tactical views held by the two Confederate commanders.
		The battle of Champion's Hill centered around a crescent-shaped ridge of about 75 feet elevation near the Champion plantation home and involved three parallel roads leading from Edwards Station to Raymond.
		The battle of Champion's Hill (or Baker's Creek) was the bloodiest action of the Vicksburg campaign.
	battleofchampionhill.org /battle1.htm (655 words)

	Battle Summary: Champion Hill, MS
		Pemberton had already started after the supply trains and was on the Raymond-Edwards Road with his rear at the crossroads one-third mile south of the crest of Champion Hill.
		Stephen D. Lee's men atop Champion Hill where they could watch for the reported Union column moving to the crossroads.
		Union forces at the Champion House moved into action and emplaced artillery to begin firing.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/ms009.htm (508 words)

	Amazon.com: CHAMPION HILL: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg: Books: Timothy B. Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign.
		Champion Hill speaks in quiet mourning of those who lie there in the bivouac of the dead.
		Champion Hill was a seesawing, day-long, complex affair, the account of which will likely spellbind the reader to the point of emotional exhaustion.
	www.amazon.com /CHAMPION-HILL-Decisive-Battle-Vicksburg/dp/1932714006 (3224 words)

	Official Site: The Battle of Champion Hill (May 14, 1863)
		It is with love, appreciation and admiration that we fulfill her wish by placing this segment of Mississippi history on the Battle of Champion Hill website.
		Reeling from their defeat at Champion Hill on Saturday, May 16, the Confederates quickly retreated westward and reached the Big Black River Bridge by night.
		Prior to the Battle of Champion Hill, Major Samuel Lockett, Confederate engineer, had already prepared make-shift bridges over the Big Black should there be a need for an escape route.
	www.battleofchampionhill.org (562 words)

	Battle of Champion Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Champion Hill, or Bakers Creek, fought May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
		Union commander Major General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton and defeated his army twenty miles to the east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, leading inevitably to the Siege of Vicksburg and surrender.
		While a battle is raging, one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to alleviate the sufferings of an enemy as a friend.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Champion_Hill (1011 words)

	Coker House Restoration Moving Forward at Champion Hill, Miss.
		The 5-acre property and historic home, a witness to the battle of Champion Hill, is a half-mile distant from the 825-acre state-owned battlefield.
		Champion Hill, May 16, 1863, was the decisive battle of the Vicksburg Campaign, and played out over 10,000 acres, according to Barnett.
		The area around Champion Hill has so far escaped development, and the state-owned land “is virtually the same as it was in the war,” with historic lanes and trails.
	www.civilwarnews.com /archive/articles/CokerHouse.htm (560 words)

	Battle of Champion Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The battle of Champion Hill,the decisive engagement of the Vicksburg campaign, had begun.
		The crest of Champion Hill, on the left of the line, was picketed as a security measure.
		As the Confederates hastened into position on the crest of Champion Hill, Federal soldiers near the Champion house swung from column into double line of battle.
	www.nps.gov /vick/vcmpgn/chmpnhl.htm (753 words)

	93rd Illinois Infantry
		The battle was fought about three and a half miles southeast of Edward's Station, south of the Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad, on the hills and through the ravines along the left bank of Baker's Creek.
		Up the hill they swept, onto the enemy's right, battery and all, just before they were ready to withdraw their remaining forces.
		This regiment contained, when it went into battle, about three and a half percent of the entire number engaged on the positions occupied by the right wing of the army, where the principal part of the fighting occurred.
	www.illinoiscivilwar.org /cw93-hist-ch4b.html (3114 words)

	Iowa Battle Flag Preservation - Gallery Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		During the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, (October 3 and 4, 1862) Color Sgt. Jacob Gower tucked the flagstaff of the regiment's national flag behind his belt buckle and marched into battle.
		Following the battle, in which the 10th Iowa Infantry had 3 killed and 37 wounded, the regimental flag and Gower's belt were sent to the State Historical Society of Iowa for preservation.
		Sergeant Gower continued to serve with the 10th Iowa and was wounded at the battle of Champion Hill.
	www.iowaflags.org /gallery3.html (1090 words)

	The Vicksburg Post: News
		Champion and his wife, Matilda Montgomery Champion, built their plantation at Midway Station along the Southern Railroad around 1853.
		Champion was mustered out of the Confederate Army in May 1865 and returned to his wife and children.
		Saturday on the grounds of Sid and Matilda Champion's house on Champion's Hill Road, four miles west of Bolton.
	www.vicksburgpost.com /articles/2006/05/19/news/news02.txt (353 words)

	American Civil War Gaming & Reading: February 2006 Archives
		Bowen's Division moved north to the rescue of Stevenson's Division and counter attacked up Champion Hill around 2:30 P.M. This fine Division of Missourians and Arkansans was combat hardened, and they drove Hovey's and Logan's Divisions back to their starting points near the Sid Champion house north of the hill.
		Farwell concludes that the political consequences in the North were "enormous", and that the Battle led to Gen. Stone's Court Martial and the formation of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
		In the South, the battle was called a "great victory", while in the North Farwell says the shock was greater than that displayed at larger Union disasters later in the war.
	brettschulte.net /ACWBlog/archives/2006_02.html (14943 words)

	The Daily Mississippian Online
		Some, like Champion Hill near Vicksburg, have suffered from years of neglect.
		Champion Hill not the only battle to suffer the same fate
		On some of the battlefields where the blue and the grey once fought, new battles are being waged.
	www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/99/9903/990331/ent.html (237 words)

	Latest news on Civil War battle site preservation
		Champion Hill is considered the decisive battle of General Ulysses Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign.
		At the end of the day, Pemberton’s dispirited army was forced to abandon Champion Hill, losing its last opportunity to avoid a siege of Vicksburg.
		Current Status: Although deceptively rural, Champion Hill is experiencing much of the sprawl faced by other battlefields in the Magnolia State.
	www.civilwar.org /news/topten2003/championhill2003.htm (277 words)

	Battles
		The 12 Battles and/or Campaigns of the Army of the Cumberland
		Battle of Bloody Bridge, or the Battle for Burdens Causeway
		"Rumble on The Rappahannock": The Battle of Chancellorsville
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	Civil War Battles
		Whether you call it Antietam or Sharpsburg, this is the best treatment of the battle I have seen.
		I have been spending a lot of time here lately, enjoying all the in depth articles, maps, photos and easily understood battle overview as well as the simple joy of a well thought out state-of-the-art site.
		Battle of Fort Blakely and Spanish Fort, AL
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	Battle of Big Black River Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Big Black River Bridge, or Big Black, fought May 17, 1863, was part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
		Union commander Major General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton following the Battle of Champion Hill, in the final battle before the Siege of Vicksburg.
		Reeling from their defeat at Champion Hill, the Confederates reached Big Black River Bridge, the night of May 16–17.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Big_Black_River_Bridge (385 words)

	Official Site: The Battle of Raymond, Mississippi (May 12, 1863)
		Illinois Soldiers in the Battles of Raymond and Champion Hill
		He wrote, “To really see a battle…one must accept the most dangerous situations, for in most cases this can not possibly be avoided.” As for covering a battle, some mistakenly believed that a correspondent was immune to enemy or friendly fire.
		He was eighteen, a veteran of fighting in Virginia and not fully recovered from a crippling knee disease.
	www.battleofraymond.org (455 words)

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		He and his regiment fought hard throughout the Vicksburg Campaign, where he was wounded at the Battle of Champion Hill.
		All battle accounts describe the open fields which terminate at the foot of "Lee's Ridge", where his Alabamians were in the tree-line--just as depicted below.
		No contemporary battle artists have made any prints for the Vicksburg Campaign: therefore, this is as good as it gets.
	www.championhillrelics.com /Images.htm (1194 words)

	The Battles
		A personal diary made public during the Vicksburg Campaign Re-enactment was that of a Union soldier, Merrick Wald, who fought at Champion Hill, the Battle of the Big Black River, and the Siege of Vicksburg.
		Of Co K was wounded this evening, we was drawn up in line of battle to charge on a battery, but they were thought to be too many for us.
		We advanced to within half mile of their works, we had to go over a high hill right in fair view of all their batteries.
	scott.k12.va.us /speters2/battles.htm (458 words)

	Aquilla Standifird's Diary - Part Four
		And we were halted a short time, moved forward again turning to the right and soon came out in open ground and up a hill on and around which shown the unmistakable signs of a fearful struggle.
		Survived the hill, we turned to the left going across an open field and through some timber taking some prisoners.
		Some made their escape by swimming the river and some was drowned and a number of them their arms in the river when say they were caught.
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	The Battle of Raymond
		Brigadier General Parker Hills, USA (Ret), is the founder of Battle Focus, specializing in battlefield tours, and is a regular speaker at Civil War Roundtables, battlefield preservation groups, civic clubs and seminars.
		All of her articles pertaining to the Civil War have been printed in the Gazette under the heading Kaleidoscope of History.
		He was the son of the "grandfatherly" Major General George Sears Greene, popularly known as the defender of Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg.
	battleofraymond.org /battle.htm (712 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| America's Civil War \| Battle of Champion's Hill
		Having fought and won a battle at Port Gibson, Grant's army occupied the evacuated Confederate river batteries at Grand Gulf, south of Vicksburg.
		The resulting battle was sharp enough, even though the grayclads were driven back to Jackson, to convince Grant that he could not turn westward to Vicksburg without first securing Jackson.
		Tells the story of the battle for Iwo Jima through the eyes of those who lived through it.
	www.historynet.com /acw/blchampionshill (1009 words)

	Civil War Mississippi Battle Champion Hill Baker Creek
		For protection, Pemberton posted Brigadier General Stephen D. Lee's men atop Champion Hill where they could watch for the reported Union column moving to the crossroads.
		This is the battle map drawn by Major Samuel H. Lockett, Chief Engineer of the Dept. of Miss.
		The battles are discussed and analyzed in their strategic context with emphasis on the battalion's role in the outcome, including the specific Federal units they fought against.
	americancivilwar.com /statepic/ms/ms009.html (882 words)

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