Vicksburg Campaign,
a Virtual Tour
Grant Moves Inland (The crossing of Big Bayou Pierre, and the Battles of
Raymond and Jackson)
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See Vicksburg Campaign, a Virtual Tour: Battle
of Raymond
See Vicksburg Campaign, a Virtual Tour: Battle
of Jackson |
Links: 1. Grant's Army Pushes Inland: Vicksburg NMP Home Page 2. Battle of Raymond 3. Battle of Jackson 4. Rocky Springs 5. OLD PORT GIBSON ROAD: Civil War Route to Raymond |
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(3-01) Hardscrabble Crossroads. View looking north up the wartime main road between Vicksburg and Port Gibson. Confederates withdrawing from Grand Gulf turned north here crossing the Big Black River at Hankinson's Ferry, 3 1/2 miles north |
(3-01) Kennison Creek, one mile south of Hardscrabble Crossroads. View looking south. Cockrell's Confederate Brigade was deployed nearby overlooking the creek, to cover Loring's crossing of the Big Black at Hankinson's Ferry |
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(3-01) Willows (wartime Willow Springs). View looking east up old Port Gibson Road. Historic Road (McCaa) from Grindstone Ford at right. Historic Ingleside Road at left. McClernand's XIII Corps camped in and around Willow Springs, May 3. The Confederate setup a roadblock on the McCaa Road |
(3-08) Willow Springs. Junction of Old Port Gibson Road and the Historic McCaa Road. McCaa Road is to the left of the building and runs parallel to the tree line from left to right |
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(3-08) Willow Springs. McCaa Road 0.1 mi. south of Old Port Gibson Road, view looking south |
(March 2008)
Rocky Springs Methodist Church from Old
Port Gibson Road |
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