Map of Vicksburg showing the river front and the positions of the Union and Confederate lines in the rear. When I awoke this morning I ...

Crocker, Hovey and Logan's Divisions driving the enemy at the point of the bayonet throught Champion Hills. We rolled out of b...

IN REAR OF VICKSBURG, MISS. , May 31 , 1863 . (Received June 3 – 4 p.m.)   Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Dept. of the Gulf: GENER...

BEHIND VICKSBURG, May 28 , 1863 , VIA MEMPHIS , May 30 – 9 p.m. (Received June 1 – 3 . 15 a.m.) The siege works progress satisfa...

There was some very heavy cannonading out at the front today, and word came that a battle was fought at a place called Champion Hills, with...

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 72. HDQRS. THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Battle-field, in rear of Vicksburg, May 30 , 1863 . COMRADES: As your comma...

HEADQUARTERS 15TH ARMY CORPS, WALNUT HILLS, May 25, 1863. Whilst the men are making roads and ditches to enable me to get close up to...

MYERS, A. J. — Farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 10. P. O. West Pilot. Was born June 26, 1843, in Knox county, Ohio. When six years of age he m...

The ten companies composing the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry were ordered into, quarters at Keokuk, Iowa, between the dates January 25 and Marc...

The Tenth regiment was ordered into quarters by the Governor in the latter part ol August, 1861. Nine full companies had assembled at the de...