Champion Hill

The Mississippi battle between Grant’s and Pemberton’s forces that sealed Vicksburg’s fate.   The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The fighting on May 16, 1863, took place just twenty miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Federal army attacked Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton’s hastily gathered Confederates.   The bloody fighting seesawed back and forth until superior Union leadership broke apar