The Battle of Port Gibson (May 1, 1863) was fought between a Union Army commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant and a reinforced Confederate States...
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Port Gibson is a city and the county seat of Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,567 at the 2010 census. It is bordered...
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The Port Gibson Battlefield is the site near Port Gibson, Mississippi where the 1863 Battle of Port Gibson was fought during the American Civil War. The...
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Mississippi. A Union victory in the Battle of Port Gibson on May 1 secured the beachhead and forced the abandonment of the position at Grand Gulf, which...
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Edward D. Tracy (category People of Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War)
a brigadier general on August 16, 1862. Tracy was killed at the Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi on May 1, 1863. He was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery...
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6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Mississippi)
and on May 1 fought in the Battle of Port Gibson. The 6th Mississippi charged a Union battery during the battle at Port Gibson, taking heavy fire before...
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Windsor Ruins (category Ruins on the National Register of Historic Places)
miles (16 km) southwest of Port Gibson near Alcorn State University. The ruins consist of 23 standing Corinthian columns of the largest antebellum Greek...
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May 1 (redirect from 1st of May)
Grant win at the Battle of Port Gibson and establish a firm presence on the east side of the Mississippi River. 1865 – The Empire of Brazil, Argentina...
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Eugene Asa Carr (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
Confederate forces at the Battle of Port Gibson. He fought in subsequent battles at Champion's Hill and Vicksburg. After the fall of Vicksburg, Carr was transferred...
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known in the North as Battle of Antietam and Second Battle of Bull Run were referred to as the Battle of Sharpsburg and the Battle of Manassas, respectively...
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