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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

Forces Engaged:

Killed: 42

Wounded: 251

Missing: 7

Total Casualties: 300

Confederate Officers

Confederate Order of Battle

Confederate Official Records

Brig. Gen. John Gregg

Commander at Jackson

Col. Peyton H. Colquitt

46th Georgia Infantry

Commander, Gist's Brigade

Union Officers

Brig. Gen. James M. Tuttle

Brig. Gen. Ralph P Buckhand

Brig. Gen. Charles L. Matthies

Union Order of Battle

Union Official Records

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Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Press, 2004. p 271-281

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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 111-113

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

Mitcham, Samuel W. Jr. Vicksburg. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2018. p 163-174

Wheeler, Richard. The Siege of Vicksburg. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. p 118, 146-149

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