Battle for the "Gibraltar of the Confederacy": The Vicksburg Campaign

By Kent Masterson Brown

We will then board buses the next morning to follow General Ulysses S. Grant’s campaign to seize Vicksburg, with stops at the Confederate defenses at Grand Gulf, the site of Grant’s amphibious landing at Bruinsburg, the battlefields at Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion Hill and the Big Black River, and finally follow Confederate General John C. Pemberton’s withdrawal into the Vicksburg defenses. 

On April 14, we will spend the day walking across the sites where Grant’s army unsuccessfully assaulted Pemberton’s Vicksburg defenses. We will follow the Union assaults against Stockade Redan, The Third Louisiana Redan, The Great Redoubt, The Railroad Redoubt, Fort Garrott and the Texas Lunette, where no fewer than 19 Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded to Union soldiers for valor, and where Pemberton’s rag-tag army and the Vicksburg civilian population held on without food or supplies for 47 days. You will discover that the sites on the battlefields at Vicksburg and those overlooking the Mississippi River are breathtaking. It will be a seminar you will never forget. •

Volume 6, Number 4

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