Grant at Vicksburg : The General and the Siege /

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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.
Subjects:
Grant, Ulysses S. > (Ulysses Simpson), > 1822-1885.
Grant, Ulysses S. > (Ulysses Simpson), > 1822-1885 > Military leadership.
United States - General.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
Command of troops.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
General.
HISTORY.
Mississippi > Vicksburg.
Vicksburg (Mississ.) > Histoire > 1863 (Siege)
Vicksburg (Miss.) > History > Siege, 1863.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (227 pages).
ISBN:9780809332410

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