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Photography from Anniversary Events
In Memoriam October 22, 1925 — October 7, 2006
Salvaging the Charm, Dot |
Monument Unveiled 
On May 3, 2019, a large crowd of friends and Civil War enthusiasts,
including a tour group with the American Battlefield Trust, gathered at
the crossroads on the Champion Hill battlefield for the unveiling of a
large monument honoring Edwin C. Bearss. Ed holds the reputation as
being the nation’s leading Civil War historian who, in earlier years,
began the mission of preserving the Champion Hill Battlefield located 25
miles east of Vicksburg. Cockrell's Counter Attack Historic Marker Placed
The new historic marker, “Cockrell’s Counterattack” has been placed on the Old Jackson Road between the Cross-roads and the Hill of Death. To date the Champion Heritage Foundation has placed ten historic markers on the battlefield. Bowen's Counter Attack Historic Marker Placed
The new historic marker, “Bowen’s Counterattack” has been permanently placed at the Crossroads within sight of the 2013 marker, “The Fight for the Crossroads.” To date the Champion Heritage Foundation has placed nine historic markers on the battlefield.
Lt. S. E. M.
Underhill
From the Guernsey Times (Cambridge,
Ohio),
This extraordinary letter, written by former English army officer Stephen E.M. Underhill to his mother in Coldstream, Scotland in the waning days of the siege of Vicksburg, gives a lengthy account of Underhill's experiences during the Vicksburg campaign while serving as an aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Stephen D. Lee. The 21-year-old Underhill resigned his commission in the British army and entered the Confederacy through the blockade at Charleston, South Carolina in January 1863, journeyed to Mississippi and gained an appointment to Lee's staff. Underhill gained favorable notice from Lee for his "gallantry and efficient service" during the campaign and following his parole at Vicksburg, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant of cavalry and eventually became colonel of the 65th Alabama Infantry. Death of General Lloyd Tilghman: The Legend of the “Blood-Leaved Peach” By Sue Burns Moore
On a warm spring day, May 16, 1863, Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman’s artillery, composed of the six guns of Capt. James J. Cowan's Company G, First Mississippi Light Artillery, and two guns of Culbertson’s Company C, Fourteenth Mississippi Artillery Battalion, held the critical burden of defending the only escape route to Vicksburg open to Pemberton’s badly outnumbered Confederates --- the ford at Baker’s Creek. Tilghman held a strong position, but the Federals pounded the Mississippians relentlessly with shot and shell from their position at the Coker house as the great Battle of Champion Hill raged on.
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"The Hill of Death" "THE HILL OF DEATH" read by Edwin C. Bearss, Historian Emeritus, National Park Service
I Was There: The Battle of Champion Hill By Bertha Lewis A Memorial Poem
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By Rebecca Drake and Margie Bearss Collected Stories of the Vicksburg Campaign
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Darwina's Diary: A View of Champion Hill ~ 1865
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The Rebel Sister of By Rebecca B. Drake & Sue B. Moore
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