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Battle of Memphis

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Battle of the rams.
Ward, A. R., artist

Battle of Memphis I

Conflict

American Civil War

Date

June 6, 1862

Place

Shelby County, Tennessee

Result

Union victory

Combatants
United States of America	Confederate States of America
Commanders
Charles H. Davis Charles R. Ellet	James E. Montgomery M. Jeff Thompson
Strength
U.S. Ironclads Benton, Louisville, Carondelet, Cairo, and St. Louis and U.S. Army Rams Queen of the West and Monarch	C.S. Navy Rams General Beauregard, General Bragg, General Price, General Van Dorn, General Thompson, Colonel Lovell, Sumter, and Little Rebel
Casualties
1	180

Joint Operations Against New Madrid, Island No. 10, and Memphis
New Madrid – Island No. 10 – Memphis I

The Battle of Memphis was a naval battle fought on the Mississippi River on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War. It resulted in the Union fleet capturing the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

The Total Annihilation of the Rebel Fleet by the Federal Fleet under Commodore Davis." "On the Morning of June 6th 1862, off Memphis, Ten

After defeating the Confederates at the Battle of Island Number Ten, the Union fleet was able to steam downriver to threaten Memphis. Opposing them was a small floatilla of makeshift crafts. Confederate gunboats, some of them converted paddleboats armored with cotton bales, were pitted against Union ironclads and rams. The battle lasted one and a half hours and was watched by the civilian population from the Chickasaw Bluffs. The Union fleet quickly captured or sunk most of the Rebel forces, with the survivors retreating southwards down the river towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. Casualties were extemely lopsided with 180 Southerners killed or injured and only one casualty for the North. The battle ended with Union commanders landing at the city docks and taking control of Memphis, giving the Union army a port for moving supplies down the river.

Another Civil War military engagement also took place in Memphis. In April, 1864 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest led a nighttime cavalry raid on his hometown of Memphis with the intent of freeing Confederate prisoners and capturing General Washburn, then encamped in Memphis. Washburn barely escaped capture out a back alley behind his headquarters.

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