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2000
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E516.B35 2000eb
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973.7/3/09762
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Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns, Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments--Guidebooks, Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields--Guidebooks, Missis
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Civil War Mississippi
A Guide
Michael B. Ballard
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI /JACKSON
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http://www.upress.state.ms.us
Copyright 2000 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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Maps by Becky Smith All Vicksburg campaign maps are adapted from Michael B. Ballard, The Campaign for Vicksburg, Conshohocken, PA: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1996.
The Tupelo map is adapted from Michael B. Ballard, The Battle of Tupelo, Murfreesboro, TN: Southern Heritage Press for the Blue and Gray Education Society, 1996.
The Brice's Cross Roads map is adapted from Parker Hills, A Study in Warfighting. Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Saline, MI: McNaughton and Gunn for the Blue and Gray Education Society, 1996.
The Corinth map is adapted from Albert Castel, General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ballard, Michael B. Civil War Mississippi: a guide / Michael B. Ballard p. cm. "A Muscadine book." Includes index. ISBN 0-87805-870-2 (alk. paper). - ISBN 1-57806-196-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Mississippi-History-Civil War, 18611865-Campaigns. 2. United States-History-Civil War, 18611865-Campaigns. 3. Mississippi-History-Civil War, 18611865-Monuments Guidebooks. 4. Mississippi-History-Civil War, 18611865 Battlefields-Guidebooks. 5. Mississippi Guidebooks. 6. Historic sites-Mississippi Guidebooks. I. Title. E516.B35 2000 973.7'3'09762-dc21 99-30825 CIP
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For my nieces, April, Celeste, and Melody
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CONTENTS
Preface
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Part I Iuka and Corinth
11
1. Silent Guns: The Battle of Iuka
15
2. Van Dorn's Folly: The Battle of Corinth
22
Part II Vicksburg
35
3. Gunboats: The First Attack on Vicksburg
39
4. Grant's Failures: Vicksburg, October 1862April 1863
45
5. Grant Triumphant: Vicksburg, Final Campaign and Siege
55
Part III Meridian, Brice's Cross Roads, and Tupelo
75
6. Securing a Victory: The Meridian Campaign
77
7. The Wizard's Magic: The Battle of Brice's Cross Roads
89
8. Turning the Tables: The Battle of Tupelo
99
Conclusion: The Legacy of the War in Mississippi
110
Touring the War
115
Major Campaigns and Battles
121
Other Engagements
123
Civil War Cemeteries
127
Other Places to Visit
130
Index
133
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PREFACE
Civil War battles in Mississippi played a major role in determining who won the war in the western theater. This fact has taken on new meaning in recent years as many Civil War historians have argued that the outcome of the entire war was decided in the west. Battles in the eastern theater are more famous and are still more written about than encounters in the west. But the war turned on the consequences of the fighting at Fishing Creek, Kentucky; Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee; New Orleans, Louisiana; Island No. 10 on the Mississippi River near the Tennessee-Kentucky border; Murfreesboro and Chattanooga, Tennessee; Chickamauga, Georgia; the Atlanta campaign in Georgia; and several campaigns and battles in Mississippi.
This volume has several purposes. The most important is to inform the novice about the war in Mississippi. I have attempted to achieve this through brief narrative descriptions of the major campaigns and battles in the state. I have also tried to place each campaign and battle within the context of the war in the west and the conflict as a whole. While the book targets the novice, it is hoped that even knowledgeable Civil War buffs and historians will benefit from my attempt to examine the Mississippi war in an expansive framework. At the end of each of the narrative's three parts, suggestions are given for further, more in-depth, reading about the military campaigns. The concluding chapter is an attempt to place the legacy of the war in Mississippi in a perspective that extends beyond the battlefield. The economic devastation and racial upheaval that came with the war sent shock waves through many succeeding gen-
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