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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

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Confederate Order of Battle

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Confederate Official Records

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Brig. Gen. John Gregg

Commander at Jackson

Col. Peyton H. Colquitt

46th Georgia Infantry

Commander, Gist's Brigade

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Union Officers

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Brig. Gen. James M. Tuttle

Brig. Gen. Ralph P Buckhand

Brig. Gen. Charles L. Matthies

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Union Order of Battle

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Union Official Records

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Brands, H. W. The Man Who Saved the Union Ulysses Grant In War and Peace. New York: Doubleday, 2012. p236

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

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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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