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    The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, also called the Battle of Walnut Hills, fought December 26–29, 1862, was the opening engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign...
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  • Yazoo River. Chickasaw Bayou derives its name from the Chickasaw tribe. The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou was fought near this stream in 1862. U.S. Geological...
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  • order of battle for the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou includes: Battle of Chickasaw Bayou order of battle: Confederate Battle of Chickasaw Bayou order of battle:...
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    and West Tennessee Raids and Sherman's after a repulse at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. Sherman's men fell back to Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, Sherman...
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  • units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. LTG = Lieutenant...
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  • units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. MG = Major...
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    Morgan Lewis Smith (category People of Missouri in the American Civil War)
    brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from July 16, 1862. He served under Sherman in the Vicksburg Campaign. At the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou he received...
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    defending a line of hills above the Chickasaw Bayou. A Union attack on December 29 was defeated decisively at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, and Sherman's...
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  • 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Mississippi)
    at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, receiving praise from Confederate general John C. Pemberton for its contribution to victory in that battle. The Regiment's...
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    defending a line of hills above the Chickasaw Bayou. A Federal attack on December 29 was defeated decisively at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, and Sherman's...
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    the division of Brig. Gen. Frederick Steele spent the morning attempting to get into position through a ravine of the Mint Spring Bayou. McPherson's corps...
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    defending a line of hills above the Chickasaw Bayou. A Union attack on December 29 was defeated decisively at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, and Sherman's...
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    Thomas Clement Fletcher (category American Civil War prisoners of war held by the Confederate States of America)
    1864, when he became Colonel of the 47th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. In 1862 he was captured at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou and taken to Libby Prison...
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    13th Illinois Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Illinois)
    The regiment was part of General Sherman’s army in his attack on Chickasaw Bayou, and on the first day of battle at the Bayou, Colonel Wyman was killed...
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    by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was repulsed at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou on December 27–29. When McClernand arrived to assume command,...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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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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    War, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. Williamson was born in...
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    Grierson's Raid (category Cavalry raids of the American Civil War)
    at the Battle of Parker's Crossroads, where Forrest captured three hundred Union soldiers under Brig. Gen. Jeremiah C. Sullivan, but lost all of the artillery...
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    Holly Springs Raid (category Battles of the Western Theater of the American Civil War)
    expedition. Sherman's troops went ashore on December 26. In the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou on December 29, Pemberton repulsed Sherman's soldiers rather handily...
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    William Tecumseh Sherman (category Testifying witnesses of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson)
    most of his fellow officers admired him. In December, Sherman's forces suffered a severe repulse at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, just north of Vicksburg...
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    Grant's Canal. Ballard, p. 24. NPS Chickasaw Bayou. Ballard, pp. 147–149. NPS Arkansas Post. Organization of the Army of the Tennessee, Major General Ulysses...
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    Hill Battle of Chickasaw Bayou Siege of Corinth Battle of Corinth Battle of Grand Gulf Battle of Iuka Battle of Jackson Battle of Meridian Battle of Okolona...
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    USS Marmora (1862) (category Steamships of the United States Navy)
    sunk by two mines. After further service on the Yazoo during the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in late December, Marmora was assigned in January 1863 to a fleet...
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    defending a line of hills above the Chickasaw Bayou. A Union attack on December 29, was defeated decisively at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, and Sherman's...
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    George W. Monroe (category People of Kentucky in the American Civil War)
    George W. Morgan in the Battle of the Cumberland Gap and accompanied William Tecumseh Sherman in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou as Monroe himself got wounded...
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    Second Battle of Bull Run Battle of Antietam Battle of Coffeeville Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Kinston Battle of Chickasaw Bayou Battle of Stones...
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    David Stuart (brigadier general) (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan)
    brigade, and then a division at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in December, and also led a division at the Battle of Arkansas Post in January 1863. On March...
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    The Battle of Okolona took place on February 22, 1864, in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, between Confederate and Union forces during the American Civil...
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    Joseph Lee Heywood (category Victims of the James–Younger Gang)
    disastrous Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, led by General William Tecumseh Sherman, where he functioned as a skirmisher along the edge of the bayou and received...
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