A Missouri Family in the Civil War.
Table of Contents
Main Map
Joining Up
A Small Biography of
J.R. Bing
Uniforms and Equipment
Bloodbath at Chickasaw Bluffs

Credits

  • Charge (Introduction Page) National Park Service, Vicksburg National Military Park http://www.nps.gov/vick/vcmpgn/storm.htm.
  • 9th Missouri (Joining Up) The American Heritage New History of the Civil War, by Burce Catton, edited and introduction by James M. McPherson, Viking, 1960, 1996. Original owner: State Historical Society of Missouri.
  • Group of Federal Soldiers, (Uniforms and Equipment Page) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, American Memory National Digital Library.
  • Chickasaw Bluffs Map (Bloodbath at Chickasaw Bluffs) The Mississippi by Francis Vinton Green. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1882
  • Trench Diggers (Bibliography Page) National Park Service, Vicksburg National Military Park, http://www.nps.gov/vick/vcmpgn/storm.htm.

Bibliography

Union soldiers dig approach trenches towards the Confederate fortifications.

Battlefields of the Civil War (map), National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1974, reprinted, 1994

The Civil War at a Glance (map/timeline), National Park Service, 1993

The American Heritage New History of the Civil War, by Burce Catton, edited and introduction by James M. McPherson, Viking, 1960, 1996.

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The Fight for Chattanooga, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, by Jerry Korn and the editors of Time-Life Books, Time-Life Books, 1985

The Mississippi, by Francis Vinton Green. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1882

Missourians at Vicksburg, by Polly Huling, Missouri Historical Review, I (1955/56) pages 1-15.

Official Records of the War of Rebellion U.S. Government, (1880s)

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Schuyler, Hartley and Graham, Illustrated Catalog of Civil War Military Goods, 1864, reprinted by Dover Publications, Inc.

The Union Army, A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-65, Vol. IV, Federal Publishing Company, Madison, Wis. 1908

U.S.S. Cairo, The Story of a Civil War Gunboat, by Virgil C. Jones and Harold L. Peterson, Nationa Park Service, 1971

The War on the Mississippi, Grant's Vicksburg Campaign, by Jerry Korn and the editors of Time-Life Books, Time-Life Books, 1985