Battle of Jackson

When

14 May 1863

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

32.29° N, 90.20° W

Description

1863 battle of the American Civil War

1863 battle of the American Civil War

The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, outside Jackson, Mississippi, during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. As part of a campaign to capture the strategic Mississippi River town of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Major General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army began moving his force east across the river on April 30, 1863.

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