Under Siege! (26 page)

Burns, Ken

Cairo
(ship)

Casey, Emma

Catholic church (Vicksburg)

caves

digging

life in, during siege

surrender announced to occupants of

Champion’s Hill, Battle of

Chancellorsville, Battle of

Chattanooga, Battle of

Chickamauga, Battle of

Chickasaw Bayou, Battle of

Christ Episcopal Church (Vicksburg)

Christmas celebrations

Cincinnati
(gunboat)

civil rights movement

Civil War

cemeteries of

children orphaned by

end of

number of soldiers killed in

outbreak of

typical soldier in

women in

see also Vicksburg; specific battles

Civil War, The
(documentary film)

Civil War A-Z
(Bolotin)

Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum

Collier, Christopher

Collier, James Lincoln

Confederate States, map of

Congress, U.S.

Constitution, U.S.

Thirteenth Amendment

Cooperstown (New York)

Dana, Charles

Davis, Jefferson

Davis, Joe

Davis, Varina

Dickens, Charles

diseases

Dix, Dorothea

Douglass, Frederick

drummer boys

8th Wisconsin Infantry

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Emancipation Proclamation

Fields of Fury
(McPherson)

First Mississippi Brigade

Flowers plantation

food

during occupation

sharing of, after surrender

during siege

for soldiers

Forest, John Wesley

freed blacks

rights for

sharecropping by

in Union army

Germany, occupation after World War II of

Gettysburg, Battle of

Grand Gulf, Battle of

Grant, Frederick

during assault on Vicksburg

at Champion’s Hill

on daily rides along front lines

illnesses of

during march on Jackson

in New York City

during occupation of Vicksburg

at Port Gibson

on road to Vicksburg

during running of fleet past Vicksburg

surrender witnessed by

in Washington, D.C.

wounded leg of

Grant, Jesse

Grant, Julia

Grant, Nellie

Grant, Ulysses S.

assaults on Vicksburg ordered by

at Big Black River

at Champion’s Hill

on daily rides along front lines

and devastation of countryside

family of

at Grand Gulf

liberated slaves with army of

Lincoln’s confidence in

marches on Jackson by

medal presented by Congress to

in Missouri

occupation of Vicksburg overseen by

plan for attack on Vicksburg of

at Port Gibson

retreat to Memphis of

on road to Vicksburg

and rumors of Johnston’s return

during running of fleet past Vicksburg

Sherman and

at Shiloh

siege of Vicksburg by

surrender of Vicksburg to

training of Union troops by

tunnel warfare by

Grant, Ulysses, Jr.

Green, William Siege

guerrillas, Rebel

gunboats

bombardment of Vicksburg by

Hall, Phillip

Hodgers, Jennie Irene

Holly Springs (Mississippi)

Howe, Orion

Illinois

soldiers at Vicksburg from

training of troops in

Indiana

ironclads

at Grand Gulf

shelling of Vicksburg by

sinking of

Jackson (Mississippi)

burning of

evacuation of

Union march on

James River (Virginia), pontoon bridge on

Jim Crow Laws

Johnston, General Joe

belief of Vicksburg residents in rescue by

in Jackson

Pemberton’s last meeting with

refusal to come to Vicksburg’s aid of

Kentucky

Rebel guerrillas in

war orphans in

Ku Klux Klan

Lee, General Robert E.

Lewisburg (West Virginia)

Life Goes On
(Arnold and Wiener)

Life in the South During the Civil War
(Roger)

Lincoln, Abraham

Emancipation Proclamation issued by

Little Rock (Arkansas)

Lord, Lida

Lord, Margaret

in caves

departure from Vicksburg of

at Flowers plantation

and surrender

Lord, William Wilberforce

in caves

departure from Vicksburg of

during shelling

and surrender

Lord, William Wilberforce, Jr. (Willie)

in caves

departure from Vicksburg of

at Flowers plantation

during occupation

Loughborough, James

Loughborough, Mary

in caves

in Jackson

life after Civil War of

in St. Louis,

Louisiana

shelling of Vicksburg from

Union troops in

Margaret Ann

Mary Ann

McPherson, General James Birdseye

McPherson, James M.

McRae, Allen

McRae, Colin

McRae, Fulton

McRae, Indiana

during siege

McRae, John

McRae, Lucy

at Bolton’s Depot

in caves

life after Civil War of

during shelling

on Sky Parlor Hill

slaves owned by family of

and surrender

McRae, William

Medals of Honor

Memphis

Grant retreats to

Union capture of

Mendota
(gunboat)

Methodist church (Vicksburg)

Mexican War

Michigan

Midway (Kentucky)

Milliken’s Bend, Battle of

mines

minié balls

Minnesota, headwaters of Mississippi River in

Mississippi

arrival of Fred Grant in

devastation of countryside in

first black senator from

plan for movement of Union troops into

secession of

weather in

Missouri

soldiers at Vicksburg from

Mosby’s Raiders

Murphy, Jim

My Cave Life in Vicksburg
(Loughborough)

Native Americans

New Jersey

New Orleans

Union capture of

New York

New York Herald,

New York Times,

nurses

Old Courthouse Museum (Vicksburg)

101st Airborne Division (Screaming

Eagles)

orphans

Pemberton, General John

at Big Black River

at Champion’s Hill

fortification of Vicksburg by

on Lee’s staff

Northern origins of

portrait in Old Courthouse Museum of

during siege

surrender of

Pemberton, Patty

Pennsylvania

war orphans in

Philip of Macedonia

plantations

looting and burning of

slaves on

Porter, Admiral David Dixon

running of fleet past Vicksburg by

shelling of Vicksburg during siege by

Port Gibson, Battle of

post-traumatic stress disorder

Princeton Theological Seminary

Pyle, Howard

racism

Raymond, Battle of

Reconstruction

reenactors, Civil War

Reger, James P.

Rice

Richmond (Virginia)

battle for

destruction of

Robinson Crusoe
(Defoe)

St. Louis

segregation

Senate, U.S.

“separate but equal” policy

sharecropping

Sherman, General William Tecumseh

in assaults on Vicksburg

at Big Black River

at Chickasaw Bayou

Johnston and

in march on Jackson

at Shiloh

during siege

Sherman, Willy

Shiloh, Battle of

Shirley family

Sisters of Mercy

Sky Parlor Hill (Vicksburg)

Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War
(Collier and Collier)

slaves

former,
see
freed blacks

house

owned by McRae family,
see
Mary Ann; Rice

on plantations

during siege

Smith, General Martin Luther

Southern Ladies’ Journal

states’ rights

steamboats

Stones River, Battle of

Tennessee

Thomas, General Lorenzo

trench warfare

tunnel warfare

Twain, Mark

United States Pension Bureau

Vermont

Vicksburg

assaults on

black mayor and sheriff of

cannon guarding

Christmas celebration in

after Civil War

evacuees from Jackson in

first attack on

fortifications around

Grant’s plan to take

occupation of

port of

present-day

provisioning of

refuge in countryside for families from

retreat of Pemberton’s army to

return of refugees to

road from Jackson to

running of Union fleet past

shelling of

siege of

surrender of

swamps and bayous around

wounded soldiers treated in

Vicksburg courthouse

Museum

Vicksburg National Military Park

Vietnam War

Virginia

recruits in

West Point, U.S. Military Academy at

Wiener, Roberta

Wilkinson family

women

clothing of

at military camps

during occupation

at Raymond

during siege

World War I

World War II

wounded soldiers

at Champion’s Hill

at field hospitals

at Raymond

truce for rescue of

in Vicksburg