Description: Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi by the U.S. forces under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant. Surveyed and constructed under direction of Captain C. B. Comstock, U.S. Engineers. Drawn by Charles Spangenberg, Assistant Engineer, Head Quarters of the Department of the Tennessee. Note: Relief shown by hachures. Union and Confederate entrenchments are handcolored blue and red respectively. Detailed map showing roads, streets, railroads, hachures, vegetation, houses, and drainage. Contains five topographic profiles, six cross sections of artillery batteries, and one cross section of a "rebel rifle pit." Scale [ca. 16,800]. (not "four inches to one mile"). The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. When two major assaults (May 19 and May 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4. This action (combined with the capitulation of Port Hudson on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict. The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Map_Siege_Vicksburg_Miss
Subjects: Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863--Maps. United States--Mississippi--Vicksburg; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Military leadership
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi); Warren County (Mississippi)
 

Description: Illustration of the headquarters of the Union army outside of Vicksburg, Mississippi, published in "Civil War in Pictures" by Fletcher Pratt. Caption reads: "Headquarters of the Union Army commanded by General Grant, on the banks of the Mississippi near Vicksburg." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04602
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: Illustration of the trenches at Vicksburg, Mississippi published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. The victory at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, which lasted from May 22, 1863 to July 4, 1863, gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War after Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04617
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: Illustration of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 27, 1863, published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. The victory at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, which lasted from May 22, 1863 to July 4, 1863, gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War after Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. Caption reads: "Siege of Vicksburg. - The Fight in the Crater of Fort Hill, After the Explosion, June 27, 1863. - From a Sketch by F. B. Schell." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04618
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: Admiral David D. Porter's ironclads running past the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The fighting at Vicksburg was incredibly significant in the American Civil War, being that it was fought for the purpose of gaining access to the important Mississippi River. In addition to providing a corridor for shipping provisions it would disrupt the Confederate war effort. The fight to take Vicksburg would be long and arduous with many thousands of men dying on both sides of the conflict, though the Confederate soldiers took the worst of it. Vicksburg would eventually be taken after a multi-month siege and became a great Union victory in the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06835
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Battlefields
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: This photographic copy of a lithograph by Alfred E. Mathews depicts the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the summer of 1863 during the Civil War. Mathews sketched this scene and others of the Vicksburg siege while serving in the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Major General Ulysses S. Grant, an Ohio native, was the commanding officer of the siege. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06896
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Military leadership; Battlefields; Military encampments
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: Illustration of the canal cut opposite Vicksburg, Mississippi by order of General Ulysses S. Grant. Published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04596
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: Illustration, published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie, of the construction of the headquarters of the Union army under General Ulysses S. Grant outside of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04598
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: Illustration of a meeting between Ulysses S. Grant and John C. Pemberton published in "Civil War in Pictures" by Fletcher Pratt. The victory at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, which lasted from May 22, 1863 to July 4, 1863, gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War after Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. Caption reads: "The siege of Vicksburg. General Grant meeting Rebel General Pemberton at the stone house inside the Rebel works, on the morning of July 4." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04616
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Magnolia Hotel in Vicksburg, Mississippi designed by H.L. Stevens & Company. Youngstown pipe was used in the construction of this building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F49_007
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: Reproduction of the floating Civil War hospital ship, Nashville, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, ca. 1860-1869. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00590
Subjects: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi); Warren County (Mississippi)
 

Description: Illustration of General Ulysses S. Grant and soldiers at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04529
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Artists
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)