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Grant at Vicksburg : The General and the Siege /

On May 22, 1863, after two failed attempts to take the city of Vicksburg by assault, Major General Ulysses S. Grant declared in a letter to the commander of the Union fleet on the Mississippi River that "the nature of the ground about Vicksburg is such that it can only be taken by a siege."...

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Autor principal: Ballard, Michael B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario:On May 22, 1863, after two failed attempts to take the city of Vicksburg by assault, Major General Ulysses S. Grant declared in a letter to the commander of the Union fleet on the Mississippi River that "the nature of the ground about Vicksburg is such that it can only be taken by a siege." The 47-day siege of Vicksburg orchestrated by Grant resulted in the eventual surrender of the city and fulfilled a major strategic goal for the Union: command of the Mississippi River for the remainder of the war. In this revealing volume, Michael B. Ballard offers the first in-depth exploration of G.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (227 pages).
ISBN:9780809332410