Some Called it Champion Hill, Others Called it Bakers Creek-All Called it Bloody

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One of the bloodest battles in the Civil War lasted but a few hours and left dead soldiers from both sides laying side-by-side. Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run were bad, but that small hill east of Vicksburg, Mississippi ranks right there with them in importance. Do your research at this site:

http://battleofchampionhill.org/index.htm

 

[mobrigade]

I had family killed there. GGG-Uncle Calvin Fields Dawson's Missouri Battery (CS), and Pvt. John Singleton, Company D, 6th Missouri Confederate Infantry. I have dug many times in the Champion Hill area (private land of course). Sure was a bad one.