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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ballard, Michael B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Long road to Vicksburg
  • A regular siege and paranoia
  • River of lies
  • Rampant racism
  • Congressman and coterie
  • Closely hemmed in
  • Big black, black powder, brush fires
  • Surrender, clutter, impact.