(3-01) Enlarge 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) Enlarge 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

(3-01) Enlarge 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
 
August 2009 historical marker rededication: Skirmish at Willow Springs

(3-08) Enlarge Willow Springs. Junction of Old Port Gibson Road and historic McCaa Road. View to the south from Ingleside Road

(3-08) Enlarge Willow Springs. McCaa Road 0.1 mi. south of Old Port Gibson Road, view looking south

(March 2008) Enlarge Rocky Springs Methodist Church from Old Port Gibson Road
 
For more Rocky Springs photos see Vicksburg Campaign, a Virtual Tour Rocky Springs