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Battle of Jackson

Confederate Commander

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston

Brig. Gen. John Gregg

May 14, 1863

Jackson, Mississippi

Union Victory

Part of Vicksburg Campaign

Forces Engaged:

Killed: 17

Wounded: 64

Missing: 118

Total Casualties: 199

Confederate Officers

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Confederate Order of Battle

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Confederate Official Records

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Brig. Gen. John Gregg

Commander at Jackson

Col. Peyton H. Colquitt

46th Georgia Infantry

Commander, Gist's Brigade

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National Park Service

Battle of Jackson (May 14)

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Jackson

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Before During After

Battle of Jackson, Mississippi

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​"Sublime but Dismal Grandeur": The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi

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Forces Engaged:

Killed: 42

Wounded: 251

Missing: 7

Total Casualties: 300

Union Officers

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Brig. Gen. James M. Tuttle

Brig. Gen. Ralph P Buckhand

Brig. Gen. Charles L. Matthies

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Union Order of Battle

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Union Official Records

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Current, Richard N., ed. "Jackson, Mississippi." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p

          836-839

Foote, Shelby.  A Civil War Narrative Fredericksburg to Meridian Volume II. New York: Vintage Books, 1963. p 361-363

Grant, Ulysses. "The Vicksburg Campaign." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders of

          the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume III Part II. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society,

          2006. p 493-538

------------------ Personal Memoirs Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Modern Library, 1999. p 265-269

Hooker, Charles E. Mississippi Confederate Military History Volume VII Part II. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing, 1899. rpt.

          National Historical Society, 2008. p 122-160

Korn, Jerry. War on the Mississippi Grant's Vicksburg Campaign. "The Civil War War on the Mississippi Grant's Vicksburg

          Campaign." Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1985. p 109-113

Mitcham, Samuel W. Jr. Vicksburg The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History,

          2018. p 163-174

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.

------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.

Wheeler, Richard. The Siege of Vicksburg The Seven-Month Battle that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate. New York: Harper

          Perennial, 1991. p 118, 136-149

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