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Vicksburg Besieged (Hardcover)
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Vicksburg Besieged (Hardcover)
Series: Civil War Campaigns in the West
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A detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the
forty-day siege Vicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a
bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General
Ulysses S. Grant's forty-day siege ended the stalemate and, on July
4, 1863, destroyed Confederate control of the Mississippi River. In
the first anthology to examine the Vicksburg Campaign's final
phase, nine prominent historians and emerging scholars provide
in-depth analysis of previously unexamined aspects of the historic
siege. Ranging in scope from military to social history, the
contributors' invitingly written essays examine the role of Grant's
staff, the critical contributions of African American troops to the
Union Army of the Tennessee, both sides' use of sharpshooters and
soldiers' opinions about them, unusual nighttime activities between
the Union siege lines and Confederate defensive positions, the use
of West Point siege theory and the ingenuity of Midwestern soldiers
in mining tunnels under the city's defenses, the horrific
experiences of civilians trapped in Vicksburg, the failure of
Louisiana soldiers' defense at the subsequent siege of Jackson, and
the effect of the campaign on Confederate soldiers from the
Trans-Mississippi region. The contributors explore how the
Confederate Army of Mississippi and residents of Vicksburg faced
food and supply shortages as well as constant danger from Union
cannons and sharpshooters. Rebel troops under the leadership of
General John C. Pemberton sought to stave off the Union soldiers,
and though their morale plummeted, the besieged soldiers held their
ground until starvation set in. Their surrender meant that Grant's
forces succeeded in splitting in half the Confederate States of
America. Editors Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear, along
with their contributors-Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J. Gaines, Martin
J. Hershock, Richard H. Holloway, Justin S. Solonick, Scott L.
Stabler, and Jonathan M. Steplyk-give a rare glimpse into the often
overlooked operations at the end of the most important campaign of
the Civil War.
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