The Battle of Big Black River (Mississippi): Major General Ulysses Simpson (a.k.a. Hiram Ulysses) Grant, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Tennessee, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Mississippi, commanded by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton. Pemberton is forced to retreat into Vicksburg.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 293.
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