MOVING THE CAMP

On this day, the 16th Ohio moved their campsite from 1/2 mile down river and below Vicksburg, one mile north to the riverbank below the Vicksburg landing.

Cpl. Theodore Wolbach describes the scene on Vicksburg landing:

For a distance of a fourth of a mile along the river front at Vicksburg, steamboats, barges and other river crafts were thickly moored. Some were being loaded with munitions of war for stations along the river. Piles of bombshells that somehow resembled pumpkins, and large, conical bolts for the rifled ordnance, and big black cannon that required engineering skill to move, lined the river landing. While a detail of negroes were carrying a lot of fixed ammunition aboard of one of the boats, a percussion shell was accidentally dropped, cap end down, causing an explosion that killed thirty men and ruined two steamboats.

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Period military map showing the approximate route of the 16th Ohio into Vicksburg, through the city and to the approximate site of their camps (2) from July 25 to August 13, 1863.

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Modern day map showing the approximate route of the 16th Ohio into Vicksburg, through the city and to the approximate sites of their camps (2) from July 25 to August 13, 1863.

Red pin - Approximate location of the 16th Ohio's campsite on the night of July 24, 1863.
Purple pin - Approximate location of the 16th Ohio's campsite from July 25 to 29, 1863.
Aqua pin - Approximate location of the 16th Ohio's campsite from July 30 to August 13, 1863.