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Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, (May 14, 1863), US Civil War

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  • William Payne, (USA) (1841 - 1926)
    Company E 5th Iowa Infantry Civil War
  • Frederick Walker Payne, (USA) (1837 - 1910)
    Enlisted Company E., Iowa 5th Infantry Regiment on 25th August 1862. Mustered out 8 August 1864. Transferred to Company G. Iowa 5th Cavalry on 8 August 1864. Mustered out 17 June 1865 at Nashville, Ten...
  • Capt. Bliss L. Sutherland, (USA) (1824 - 1892)
    American Civil War Veteran Company H 113th Illinois Infantry Enlisted in August 1862 Discharged in January 1865
  • Benjamin Franklin Searls, (USA) (1830 - 1890)
    Civil War Record: Enlisted in Company I, West Virginia 4th Infantry Regiment on 22 Jul 1861. Mustered out on 10 Dec 1864. Transferred to Company A, West Virginia 2nd Infantry Regiment on 10 Dec 1864. M...
  • Cpl. Dennis Dailey, (USA) (1827 - 1864)
    CORPORAL CO B 9TH NH VOLS - CIVIL WAR. Enlisted 7.25.1862; mustered 8.7.1862 as pvt. Appointed Corporal 11.2.1862. Discharged with disability 11.10.1863 in Louisville, KY. Application for Disability: 1...

The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign during the American Civil War. After entering the state of Mississippi in late April 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army moved his force inland to strike at the strategic Mississippi River town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Battle of Raymond, which was fought on May 12, convinced Grant that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate army was too strong to be safely bypassed, so he sent two corps, under Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson and Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, to capture Johnston's position at Jackson. Johnston did not believe the city was defensible and began withdrawing. Brig. Gen. John Gregg was tasked was commanding the Confederate rear guard, which fought Sherman's and McPherson's men at Jackson on May 14 before withdrawing. After taking the city, Union troops destroyed economic and military infrastructure and also plundered civilians' homes. Grant then moved against Vicksburg, which he placed under siege on May 18 and captured on July 4. Despite being reinforced, Johnston made only a weak effort to save the Vicksburg garrison, and was driven out of Jackson a second time in mid-July.

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