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Battle of Port Gibson

Confederate Commander

Maj. Gen. John S. Bowen

Forces Engaged: 8,000

Killed: 60

Wounded: 340

Captured or Missing: 387

Total Casualties: 787

May 1, 1863

Claiborne County, near Port Gibson, Mississippi

Union Victory

Part of the Vicksburg Campaign

Forces Engaged: 23,000

Killed: 131

Wounded: 719

Captured or Missing:

Casualties: 861

Confederate Officers

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Maj. Gen. William W. Loring

Brig. Gen. Martin E. Green

Brig. Gen. William E. Baldwin

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Confederate Order of Battle

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Confederate Official Records

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Union Officers

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Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson

Maj. Gen. John A. Logan

Brig. Gen. Alvin P. Hovery

Brig. Gen. George F. McGinnic

Brig. Gen. Eugene A. Carr

Brig. Gen. William P. Benton

Brig. Gen. John D. Stevenson

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Union Order of Battle

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Union Official Records

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Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Press, 2004. p 222-240

Brands, H. W. The Man Who Saved the Union Ulysses Grant In War and Peace. New York: Doubleday, 2012. p 233

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 101-105

Grant, Ulysses. Personal Memoirs. New York: Modern Library, 1999. p 258

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

          Publishing Co, 1899. National Historical Society, 2008. p136

Mitcham, Samuel W. Jr. Vicksburg. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2018. p137-150

Wheeler, Richard. The Siege of Vicksburg. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. p 124-127

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