Скачать или смотреть The Battle of Champion Hill - Chapter 4: Bowen Goes for Broke

Champion Hill was the pivotal battle of the Vicksburg campaign in the US Civil War, and some historians say that the capture of Vicksburg doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
So, was Champion Hill the most important battle in the war? I don't know, but in this series you can follow the battle with narration and from a 3-thousand foot point of view.

Timings:
1:18 Sizes of the two armies
1:48 What Grant and Pemberton knew
3:21 The counterattack starts
5:00 Where is the Federal response?
7:50 Approach of Crocker's division
8:43 Bowen pauses, and asks for more ammunition
9:47 General Grant is shaken
10:32 General Pemberton looks for Loring's division
12:49 The tide turns for the Federals
14:56 Bowen begins his retreat