Vicksburg: Fall of the Confederate Gibraltar (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series)
Description
From the beginning of the Civil War the Confederate bastion at Vicksburg thwarted Federal hopes for gaining control of the all-important Mississippi River and cutting the far-flung Confederacy in half. By 1863, despite Federal successes at New Orleans and Memphis, Vicksburg stood defiant, keeping open the flow of badly needed supplies from the Trans-Mississippi West to the major Confederate armies in the East. But that year, an unlikely new Federal hero—scruffy, cigar-smoking Ulyssess S. Grant—prepared to launch an all out and highly risky campaign to topple the "Confederat...
ISBN(s)
1893114007, 9781893114005
