Learn about the 48 day siege during the summer of 1863 that gave the Union Army, commanded by Ulysses S. Grant, control of the Mississippi River - thus cutting the Confederate supply line to the South.
VIDEO HERE (20:31 minutes)
Learn about the 48 day siege during the summer of 1863 that gave the Union Army, commanded by Ulysses S. Grant, control of the Mississippi River - thus cutting the Confederate supply line to the South.
VIDEO HERE (20:31 minutes)
Really good video. My Great X3 Grandfather won the CMOH with the 99th Illinois regiment at Vicksburg and there is a marker on the spot in the Battlefield park where the action took place. I actually have the telescope and binoculars he carried in the battle. He was captured by Confederate forces and personally interviewed by Pemberton who then paroled him back to the Union with a written commendation for Valor. His CMOH is one of the very few involving an enemy commendation. Vicksburg Battlefield National Park is an amazing place and my older son and I both earned the Vicksburg Historic Trek award with the Boy Scouts for a combined hike and land service project we did there. Don't tell the Park Rangers but I also have one spherical grape shot about 1" in diameter fired at the battle.
ReplyDeleteThe Medal of Honor has nothing to do with congress, i wish people would stop calling the CMOH the tv people are the ones who started that it is false!!!! grayman
DeleteYou're right about that. Funny how I let that slip into my vocabulary.
DeleteMy gr gr grandfather,C. Ansley, was on the gun crew that sank the uss cincinnati at Vicksburg. He was in the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery, company A, under Captain J.D. Upton. Many of the men in this unit were from south Arkansas, including my gr gr grandfather.
ReplyDeleteMy gr gr grandfather was there in the Alabama 20th.
DeleteBeen there a couple of times. If you haven't go and also see the USS Cairo boat museum.
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