Extended ebook content for A Chain of Thunder

1. Overview of Mississippi Theater of War

2. Griersons Cavalry Raid

3. Grant Moves Downriver

4. Grant Invades Mississippi

5. Positions on May 13

6. Sherman and McPherson at Jackson

7. Positions on May 15

8. The Battle of Champion Hill-First Contact

9. The Battle of Champion Hill

10. S.D. Lee Retreats_Cumming Breaks

11. Bowens Counterattack

12. Battle of Big Black River Bridge

13. Siege Lines on May 18

14. Siege Lines Mid-June

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