Champion Hill News

Gloria Bailey found this tombstone bearing the names Sarah and Isaac Roberts while creating a garden recently at her Edwards home.

Mississippi Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker have again proposed expanding the Vicksburg National Military Park to add the battlefields of Champion Hill, Port Gibson and Raymond.

Mississippi Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker have proposed expanding the Vicksburg National Military Park to add the battles of Champion Hill, Port Gibson and Raymond.

The decisive battle during Grant's 1863 Vicksburg campaign most likely would have been fought in Clinton had not a small incident occurred that changed the course of the Civil War.