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The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863 (Hardcover)
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The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863 (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R451
Discovery Miles 4 510
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Jackson, Mississippi, was the third Confederate state capital to
fall to Union forces. When Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captured the
important rail junction in May 1863, however, he did so almost as
an afterthought. Drawing on dozens of primary sources,
contextualized by the latest scholarship on Grant's Vicksburg
campaign, The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863, offers
the most comprehensive account ever published on the fall of the
Magnolia State's capital during Grant's inexorable march on
Vicksburg. General Grant had his eyes set not on Jackson but on
Vicksburg, the "Gibraltar of the Confederacy," the invaluable prize
that had eluded him for the better part of a year. He finally
marched south on the far side of the Mississippi River and crossed
onto Mississippi soil to approach Vicksburg by land from the east.
As he drove through the interior of the state, a chance encounter
with Confederates at Raymond alerted him to a potential threat
massing farther east in Jackson under the leadership of Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston, one of the Confederacy's most respected field
officers. Jackson was a vital transportation and communications hub
and a major Confederate industrial center, and its fall removed
vital logistical support for the Southern army holding Vicksburg.
Grant turned on a dime and made for Jackson to confront the growing
danger. He had no way of knowing that Johnston was already planning
to abandon the vital state capital. The Southern general's behavior
has long puzzled historians, and some believe his stint in Jackson
was the nadir of his long career. The loss of Jackson isolated
Vicksburg and helped set up a major confrontation between Federal
and Confederate forces a few days later at Champion Hill in one of
the most decisive battles of the war. The capital's fall
demonstrated that Grant could march into Jefferson Davis' home
state and move about with impunity, and not even a war hero like
Joe Johnston could stop him. Students of Vicksburg will welcome
this outstanding addition to the campaign literature.
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