A rain delay played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, ...

OPERATIONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI.; ... Share full article May 17, 1863 Credit... The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from May 17, 1863, Page 1 Buy Reprints View on ...

at 10 o'clock A.M., on the 17th of April, 1863, on the Ripley road ... captured 42 of STEWART's Mississippi Cavalry on Comite River, including their Colonel. This noble band of toil-worn heroes ...

Benjamin Grierson (1826-1911), was the principal element in a remarkably sophisticated deception plan to intended to divert Confederate attention from U.S. Grant’s surprise crossing of the Mississippi ...

After Union forces captured Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln saw the emancipated river as a symbol of a nation unified: “The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the ...

This first volume deals with Johnston's activities during the first two years of the war, and comprises two "books", one on Johnston's role in operations in Virginia and adjacent areas in 1861-1862, ...