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Bayou Battles for Vicksburg - The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30, 1863
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Bayou Battles for Vicksburg - The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30, 1863
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The dawn of 1863 brought a new phase of the Union’s Mississippi
Valley operations against Vicksburg. For the first four months,
Union attempts to reach high and dry ground east of the Mississippi
River were be plagued by high water everywhere, and the resulting
bayou and river expeditions would test everyone involved, including
the defending Confederates.In Bayou Battles for Vicksburg, the
latest volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign
of the US Civil War, Timothy B. Smith offers the first book-length
examination of Ulysses S. Grant’s winter waterborne attempts to
capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The
accepted strategy up to this point in the war was aligned with the
principles of the Swiss theorist Antoine-Henri Jomini, whose work
was taught at West Point, where commanders on both sides of the
conflict had been educated. But Jomini emphasized secure supply
lines and a slow, steady, unified approach to a target such as
Vicksburg, and never had much to say about creeks, rivers, and
bayous in a subtropical swamp environment. Grant threw out
conventional wisdom with a bold, and ultimately successful, plan to
avoid a direct approach and rather divide his forces to accomplish
multiple goals and to confuse the enemy by cutting levies, flooding
whole sections of watersheds, and bypassing strongholds by digging
canals far around them. Bayou Battles for Vicksburg details each of
the Union attempts to reach high ground east of the Mississippi
River and includes fresh research on the Yazoo Pass and Steele’s
Bayou expeditions, Grant’s canal, and the Lake Providence effort.
Smith weaves several simultaneous Union initiatives together into a
chronological narrative that provides great detail on the Union’s
successful final attempt to get to good ground east of the
Mississippi.
General
Imprint: |
University Press of Kansas
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Timothy B. Smith
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
552 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7006-3566-5 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-7006-3566-1 |
Barcode: |
9780700635665 |
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