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The Summer of '63: Vicksburg and Tullahoma - Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War (Hardcover)
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The Summer of '63: Vicksburg and Tullahoma - Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R550
Discovery Miles 5 500
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The fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 fundamentally changed the
strategic picture of the American Civil War, though its outcome had
been anything but certain. Union general Ulysses S. Grant tried for
months to capture the Confederate Mississippi River bastion, to no
avail. A bold running of the river batteries, followed by a daring
river crossing and audacious overland campaign, finally allowed
Grant to pen the Southern army inside the entrenched city. The long
and gritty siege that followed led to the fall of the city, the
opening of the Mississippi to Union traffic, and a severance of
Confederacy in two. In middle Tennessee, meanwhile, the Union Army
of the Cumberland brilliantly recaptured thousands of square miles
of territory while sustaining fewer than 600 casualties. Commander
William S. Rosecrans worried the North would "overlook so great an
event because it is not written in letters of blood"-and history
proved him right. The Tullahoma Campaign has stood nearly forgotten
compared to events along the Mississippi and in south-central
Pennsylvania, yet all three major Union armies scored significant
victories that helped bring the war closer to an end. The public
historians writing for the popular Emerging Civil War blog,
speaking on its podcast, or delivering talks at its annual Emerging
Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge in Virginia always present
their work in ways that engage and animate audiences. Their efforts
entertain, challenge, and sometimes provoke readers with fresh
perspectives and insights born from years of working at
battlefields, guiding tours, presenting talks, and writing for the
wider Civil War community. The Summer of '63: Vicksburg and
Tullahoma: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the
Historians at Emerging Civil War is a compilation of some of their
favorites, anthologized, revised, and updated, together with
several original pieces. Each entry includes helpful illustrations.
This important study, when read with its companion volume The
Summer of '63: Gettysburg, contextualizes the major 1863 campaigns
in what arguably was Civil War's turning-point summer.
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