“Battle of Champions Hill”, Published by Kurz and Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, Illinois (1887) color lithograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Called by some the Battle of Bakers Creek or the Battle of Champion Hill, it may have been the most important fight of the American Civil War. It's remembered as the battle the North needed to win to achieve ultimate victory. It's remembered as the battle the South needed to win if the Confederacy was to survive. It's remembered as a savage struggle and as General Hovey said in his Official Report, "It was literally a hill of death.”William Thomas Vineyard was drafted into the Confederate army, he participates in the Battle of Champion’s Hill and was captured by the Union, he later took the oath and became a Yankee.

William Thomas Vineyard stone on Ancestry from Abby Wallace.

William Thomas Vinyard Union POW. Captured at Champions Hill MS on May 14, 1863 Changed sides to the Union and “Took the oath of Allegiance July 22, 1863. U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865. Confederate Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865.

William Thomas Vineyard 1890 Veterans Schedules Tennessee Blount District 12. Enlisted 1863, discharged 1863, private.