Table of Data Points

Tag : Mississippi

1863-04-291863-05-01Snyder's Mill

To ensure that troops were not withdrawn to Grand Gulf to assist Confederates there, a combined Union Army-Navy force feigned an attack on Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi.

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1863-04-29Grand Gulf

Admiral Porter led seven ironclads in an attack on the fortifications and batteries at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, with the intention of silencing the Confederate guns and securing the area.

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1862-12-261862-12-29Walnut Hills

Early Union defeat during the Vicksburg campaign.

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1862-10-031862-10-04Corinth

For the second time in the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans defeated a Confederate army, this time one under Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn.

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1862-09-19Iuka

In the opening battle of the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, Union Gen William Rosecrans stopped the advance of the army of Confederate Gen Sterling Price

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1862-04-291862-05-30Siege of Corinth

Made cautious by the staggering losses at Shiloh, Halleck embarked on a tedious campaign of offensive entrenchment, fortifying after each advance. By May 25, 1862, after moving five miles in three weeks, Halleck was in position to lay siege to the town.

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1861-01-09Mississippi

Mississippi secedes from the Union.

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