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The Defense of Vicksburg - A Louisiana Chronicle (Hardcover, New)
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The Defense of Vicksburg - A Louisiana Chronicle (Hardcover, New)
Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
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The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle is the story of the
Louisiana soldiers who fought at Vicksburg, as told through their
letters, diaries, and remembrances. Most histories of this famous
Civil War siege have been written by the victors; this one presents
a day-by-day account from the Confederate vantage point. Indeed,
these long-dead men come to life as we read their experiences and
perceptions told in their own voices, which ring clear and without
apology. In 1862 the Dixie Rebels of DeSoto Parish left for New
Orleans. They and other Louisianians were formed into regiments and
dispatched for Vicksburg. In the year that followed, the troops
witnessed the shelling of Vicksburg by Union gunboats, the outbreak
of disease, the lonely heroics of the Confederate ironclad Arkansas
, the daily drudgery of camp life, and Jeff Davis's visit to the
beleaguered city. With immediacy and in intriguing detail several
correspondents describe daily life in the trenches from their
individual perspectives during each of the forty-seven days of the
siege. Yet their stories do not end with the capitulation of the
city, but continue in an epilogue as the troops return home and
then continue their service for the balance of the war. Their
experiences transcended their own worlds. These young men of
Louisiana still have something important to tell us.
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