Champion's Hill

Champion Hill, named for a local family, was the largest and most important battle of the Vicksburg Campaign. About 29,000 Union men faced 23,000 Confederates, and the hill changed hands three times over hours of fighting. The Confederates lost 3,840 men to the Union's 2,441 and abandoned twenty-seven cannon. William Loring's division, covering the retreat, was cut off and went east toward Crystal Springs while the rest fell back to Vicksburg. Grant followed, and after a forty-seven-day siege Pemberton surrendered on July 4, 1863.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 14 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.
• Farish Street Historic District — 16 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Old Capitol Museum — 17 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 17 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.

More markers nearby

• The Chatmon Family — 0.3 mi
• McCoy Brothers — 6.6 mi
• Confederate Cemetery — 6.7 mi
• Clinton's Blues Legacy — 7.1 mi