The Battle of Champion Hill (aka Champion's Hill)[3] of May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Union Army commander Major General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate States Army under Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton and defeated it twenty miles to the east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, leading inevitably to the Siege of Vicksburg and surrender. The battle is also known as Baker's Creek.
Sidney S. Champion, born in Guilford County, North Carolina, in 1824, came to Mississippi and settled on a large tract of land located between Bolton and Edwards. Captain Champion was a seasoned Confederate soldier long before the outbreak of the Battle of Champion Hill. The night of May 15 found Captain Champion within range of the battle site and serving as a vital member of General Pemberton's staff.[4]
^"National Park Service battle description". nps.gov. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
^ abcdKennedy, pp. 167-70.
^Gue, Benjamin T. (1903), History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Volume II, pp. 270–271
^Drake, Rebecca Blackwell, The Battle of Champion Hill, The Champion Family
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