Storming Vicksburg : Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863 /

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"Here Earl J. Hess offers an in-depth military history of a critical phase of the long federal campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War. Hess focuses on the period from May 18-23, 1863, comprising the end of Ulysses S. Grant's overland march to the rear of the city a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hess, Earl J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Mississippi > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Vicksburg (Miss.) > History > Siege, 1863.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • They are upon us: May 17
  • On the war-path for Vicksburg: May 18
  • A long dreadful day: Fifteenth Corps, May 19
  • I hope every man will follow me: Seventeenth and Thirteenth Corps, May 19
  • This will be a hard place to take: May 20-21
  • Dismay and bewilderment: Blair, May 22
  • Now, boys, you must do your duty: McPherson, May 22
  • The horror of the thing bore me down like an avalanche: McClernand and Osterhaus, May 22
  • Boys, you have just fifteen minutes to live: 2nd Texas Lunette, May 22
  • A thousand bayonets glistened in the sunlight: railroad redoubt, May 22
  • I don't believe a word of it: Grant, Sherman, and McClernand, May 22
  • Am holding position but suffering awfully: Blair, Ransom, and Tuttle, May 22
  • It made the tears come to my eyes: Steele, May 22
  • Boys, don't charge those works: Logan and Quinby, May 22
  • It is absolutely necessary that they be dislodged: reclaiming railroad redoubt, May 22
  • An ardent desire to participate in the capture of Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, Porter, and McArthur, May 22
  • I feel sad but not discouraged: making sense of May 22
  • I am surfeited, sick, and tired of witnessing bloodshed: casualties, wounded, prisoners
  • No one would have supposed that we were mortal enemies: burial, mourning
  • They ought to be remembered: honors, infamy, life stories
  • Eventful on the page of history: commemoration.

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