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JACKSON, Mississippi in the 1860s: 1 through 5 of 5

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  1. Battle of Jackson, Mississippi
    date May 14, 1863map JACKSON, Mississippitags War

    Part of the Vicksburg campaign, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederate army led by General Joseph Johnston in a battle that was relatively insignificant for military strategy, but contributed greatly to turn the tide of public sentiment. Grant overwhelmed the Confederate army, because Johnston and his troops, though they rushed back towards the capital of Mississippi, could not...

  2. Analysis of the contributions of the engineers of the Seventeenth Army Corps under Union General John Logan along Jackson Road during the Battle of Vicksburg.
    date April 17, 1863 to July 4, 1863map JACKSON, Mississippitags "Civil War", "Vicksburg" "engineer", "Jackson Road"

            Exhibiting adaptability and skill in constructing trenches and mines to counter Confederate resistance, Captain Andrew Hickenlooper, chief engineer of the Seventeenth Army Corps under Union General John Logan, had an integral role in shaping the Union course of events at the siege of Vicksburg in the spring and summer months of 1863 by overseeing one of three efforts in constructing...

  3. An account of an engineering captain in the Graveyard Road approach during the Battle of Vicksburg of the Civil War.
    date June 19, 1863 to July 4, 1863map JACKSON, Mississippitags "Vicksburg", "Civl War", "Graveyard Road", "engineer"

           Dispersing an already short supply of soldiers, artillery, and engineers, who dug trenches and pushed sap rollers, which were spherical devices filled with cotton that guarded engineers, the two unsuccessful approaches of the Union army to penetrate the city of Vicksburg in 1863 demonstrate the highly complex, yet haphazard nature in which war was engaged during the battle and throughout...

  4. Sharecropping Labor Contract
    date January 5, 1866map JACKSON, Mississippitags African-Americans, Agriculture, Race-Relations

    On January 5, 1866, a sharecropping contract was made between W. R. Bath, a white land owner, and Ned Littlepage, a freedman. As seen in The Montgomery Advertiser, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands put out a series of regulations to govern the contracts made between a land owner and a sharecropper. By these rules, a contract for the labor in question had to be produced in writing...

  5. The Republican Party in Mississippi
    date 1868map JACKSON, Mississippitags Government, Law, Politics

    In 1868, a broadside advertising the Mississippi Election Ticket for the Republican Party was released. The pamphlet was entitled Vote the Flag. There was a faded image of an American Flag in the background and a list of those running for Republican state offices in the foreground. The Republican Party had reappeared on the southern scene. Only three years after the close of the Civil War the Republican...