In the same week that Union forces triumphed at Gettysburg, they
also captured the river fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Although much less memorialized than Gettysburg, the fall of
Vicksburg was every bit as crucial to the Union cause.
Pitting Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman against John
Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, the victorious Vicksburg Campaign
helped revive a war-weary North, gave it absolute control of the
Mississippi River, severed the western Confederacy from the East,
and further constricted the South's ability to wage war as the
Union drove ever deeper into its heartland. It also gave Grant-the
campaign's chief architect-a dramatic venue for demonstrating his
maturing skills and intelligence as a strategist and field
commander.
Unlike other volumes in the U.S. Army War College Guides to
Civil War Battles series, this one examines an entire campaign,
looking at many interlinked battles and joint Army-Navy operations
as they played out over seven months and thousands of square miles
of rivers, streams, swamps, lakes, forests, hills, and plains
surrounding Vicksburg. In addition to detailed coverage of the
actual Siege of Vicksburg, the book also chronicles the battles at
Jackson, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champions Hill, and Big Black
Ridge.
Like the other volumes in the series, this one combines
eyewitness accounts with maps, illustrations, and tour directions
to illuminate the events for both tourists and arm-chair
travellers. For anyone interested in learning more about this
relatively neglected but pivotal Civil War campaign, the Guide to
the Vicksburg Campaign is must reading.
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