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Vicksburg Campaign

Confederate Commander

Lieut. Gen. John C. Pemberton

Forces Engaged: 44,000 - 77,000

Killed: 10,142

Wounded: 7,554

Captured or Missing: 1,007

Confederate Officers

Maj. Gen. C. L. Stevens

Maj. Gen. John H. Forney

Maj. Gen. M. L. Smith

Maj. Gen. John S. Bowen

Brig. Gen. S. M. Barton

Brig. Gen. Alfred Cumming

Brig. Gen. Stephen D. Lee

Brig. Gen. Louis Hebert

Brig. Gen. John C. Moore

Brig. Gen. W. E. Baldwin

Brig. Gen. J. C. Vaughn

Brig. Gen. Francis A. Shoup

Brig. Gen. John V. Harris

Confederate Order of Battle

Confederate Official Records

December 29, 1862 - January 11, 1863

Operations against Vicksburg

March 29 - July 4, 1863

Grant's Operations Against Vicksburg

In and Around Vicksburg, Mississippi

Chickasaw Bayou ( December 26-29, 1862

Arkansas Post (January 9-11, 1863)

Grand Gulf (April 29, 1863)

Snyder's Bluff (April 29-May, 1863)

Port Gibson (May 1, 1863)

Raymond (May 12, 1863)

Jackson (May 14, 1863)

Champion Hill (May 16, 1863)

Big Black River Bridge (May 17, 1863)

Siege of Vicksburg (May 18-July 4, 1863)

The Mississippi Flotilla

Rear Admiral David A. Porter

First Captain, Naval Station, Cairo

Commander A. M. Pennock

Union Naval Official Records

Naval Official Records are short and numerous and so I gave the link to the first Record. There are 132 records to read.

Forces Engaged: 38,586

Killed: 1,413

Wounded: 3,878

Captured or Missing: 3,8000

Surrendered: 29,495

Union Officers

Maj. Gen. John S. Parke

Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele

Maj. Gen. Frank P. Blair

Maj. Gen. Cadwallader C. Washburn

Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson

Maj. Gen. John A. Logan

Maj. Gen. Francis J. Herron

Brig. Gen. Thomas Welsh

Brig. Gen. Robert B. Potter

Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero

Brig. Gen. Peter J. Osterhaus

Brig. Gen. Albert L. Lee

Brig. Gen. Andrew J. Sixth

Brig. Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge

Brig. Gen. Alvin P. Hovey

Brig. Gen. George F. McGinnis

Brig. Gen. Eugene A. Carr

Brig. Gen. William A. Benton

Brig. Gen. Michael K. Lawler

Brig. Gen. John M. Thayer

Brig. Gen. Hugh Ewing

Brig. Gen. James M. Tuttle

Brig. Gen. Ralph P. Buckland

Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Mower

Brig. Gen. Charles L. Matthies

Brig. Gen. William Sooy Smith

Brig. Gen. Jacob S. Lauman

Brig. Gen. Nathan Kimball

Brig. Gen. John E. Smith

Brig. Gen. Mortimer D. Leggett

Brig. Gen. John D. Stevenson

Brig. Gen. John McArthur

Brig. Gen. Hugh T. Reid

Brig. Gen. Thomas E. G. Ransom

Brig. Gen. Isaac F. Quinby

Brig. Gen. John E. Smith

Brig. Gen. Charles L. Matthis

Brig. Gen. William Vandever

Brig. Gen. William W. Orme

Brig. Gen. Elias S. Dennis

Union Order of Battle

Army of the Tennessee

IX Corps

XIII Corps

XV Corps

XVI Corps

XVII Corps

District Northeast Louisiana

Union Official Records

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Harrell, John M. Arkansas. "Confederate Military History Vol. X Part II Louisiana & Arkansas" Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Co.

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Hooker, Charles E. Mississippi. "Confederate Military History Vol. VII Part II Alabama & Mississippi" Atlanta: Confederate

          Publishing Co. 1899. National Historical Society. 2008.

Mitcham, Samuel W. Jr. Vicksburg. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2018.

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