Wisconsin at Vicksburg: report of the Wisconsin-Vicksburg Monument Commission, including the story of the campaign and siege of Vicksburg in 1865 with especial reference to the activities therein of Wisconsin troops

              78 WISCONSIN AT VICKSBURG.
He also informed General McClernand of Johnston's intention and ordered him
to get his forces as soon as possible into the vicinity of Bolton. General Blair
had, in the meantime, come up from Grand Gulf with two hundred wagon
loads of rations, the only government supply received in the whole campaign
from Port Gibson around to the beginning of the siege. He, too, was ordered
to move quickly toward Bolton.
The Union losses at Jackson had been, according to General Grant : McPherson, 37 killed, 228 wounded; Sherman, 4 killed, 21 wounded and missing. The enemy lost in killed, wounded and captured 845. Besides the loss
of seventeen guns, the enemy destroyed large quantities of commissary
stores to keep our army from getting them.
PROM  JACKSON   TO    BLACK RIVER BRIDGE
Battle of Champion's Hill.
And nowr comes the battle of Champion's Hill, two or three miles west
of Bolton station. I will make use of a description of this fiercely fought
conflict found on pages 410-412 of Major Steele's "American Campaigns",
as published by the war department in 1909 :
"Grant was now ready to move on Edward's station to attack Pemberton, if he should remain there, before he could be joined by Johnston with
the troops from Jackson. Sherman was left with his two divisions to complete the w-ork of destruction at Jackson ; all the rest of the army, on the 15th,
moved by the various convergent roads on Edward's station. Pemberton was
at that place with three divisions, about 23,000 men; the Confederate divisions of Forney and M. L. Smith were still on the river at Vicksburg.
"On the evening of the 13th, when Johnston had learned that Grant was
moving on  Jackson, he sent an  order  to Pemberton,  'if practicable to  come