Battle of Baker's Creek, Mississippi, American Civil War ball and chain (13 December 1856)

(13 December 1856)

Ellesmere Island

Oldenburg is dressed in black with a large white square collar and turned back cuffs

South view of the Church of St Clement

Plate 27 from the paper 'On the difference in the appearence of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals'

Battle of Baker's Creek, Mississippi, American Civil War ball and chain (13 December 1856)Battle of Baker's Creek, Mississippi, American Civil War, 16 May 1863. Defeat of the Confederate troops under Lieutenant General John C Pemberton by Indiana troops under General McGinnis. Also known as the Battle of Champion Hill, Baker's Creek was the decisive engagement in Union General Ulysses S Grant's Vicksburg campaign.