| District Name: | Port Gibson Battle Site |
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| City: | Port Gibson vic. | County: | Claiborne |
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| District Abbreviation: | PGB |
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| Preparer: | Jim Woodrick, Richard Cawthon, MDAH |
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| The Port Gibson Battle Site lies approximately four miles west of the historic town of Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The area encompassing the battlefield, about 3,400 acres, is currently heavily wooded and is generally rough in terrain, but at the time of the battle was composed of large-scale cotton plantations. The battlefield is of national significance as the "direct and decisive influence" of the Vicksburg Campaign, a complex, offensive movement which propelled the Union commander, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, into national prominence, and was a key battle to final Union victory in the Civil War. Grant made the largest amphibious landing in U.S. military history up to that time by crossing the Mississippi River and landing at Bruinsburg. He gained his foothold by defeating Confederate Brig Gen. John S. Bowen in the Battle of Port Gibson. |
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