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Vicksburg - Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy (Hardcover)
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Vicksburg - Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy (Hardcover)
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Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt
Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Daniel
M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical
Foundation Distinguished Writing Award "A superb account" (The Wall
Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign
of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the
Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands
of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of
the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the
Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from
using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest
and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to
take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river,
but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's
navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg,
forcing the city to surrender. In this
"elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told"
(Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of
this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence
and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the
drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment
that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the
campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines,
where more than twenty thousand became soldiers, while others
seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying
the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social
revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that
ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times).
Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union's most capable
general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often
as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called
the most important battle of the war--the one that all but sealed
the fate of the Confederacy.
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