2014 LBG Seminar Session #10: Objective Vicksburg: Battles of Champion Hill/Big Black River Bridge

Session #10 of the 2014 Licensed Battlefield Guide Training Seminar, held on March 11, 2014 at Vicksburg National Military Park's Visitor Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Ranger David Slay presents Objective Vicksburg: Battles of Champion Hill and Big Black River Bridge.

Musical Intro is an excerpt from "Battle Cry of Freedom" by 33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band at the Vicksburg Sesquicentennial Civil War Heritage Fair on April 5, 2013. Used with permission.

I. National Situation
II. Strategic situation: Evening of May 12
III. May 13, Bowen's Ridge
IV. Council of War, May 14.
V. May 16: The Battle Begins
VI. Confederate High Tide
VII. The Union Counterattack
VIII. Lost Sheep
IX. Big Black River Bridge
X. Grant Crosses the Final Barrier.