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Early Struggles for Vicksburg - The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25-December 31, 1862 (Hardcover)
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Early Struggles for Vicksburg - The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25-December 31, 1862 (Hardcover)
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In Early Struggles for Vicksburg, Tim Smith covers the first phase
of the Vicksburg campaign (October 1862-July 1863), involving
perhaps the most wide-ranging and complex series of efforts seen in
the entire campaign. The operations that took place from late
October to the end of December 1862 covered six states, consisted
of four intertwined minicampaigns, and saw the involvement of
everything from cavalry raids to naval operations in addition to
pitched land battles in Ulysses S. Grant's first attempts to reach
Vicksburg. This fall-winter campaign that marked the first of the
major efforts to reach Vicksburg was the epitome of the by-the-book
concepts of military theory of the day. But the first major Union
attempts to capture Vicksburg late in 1862 were also disjointed,
unorganized, and spread out across a wide spectrum. The
Confederates were thus able to parry each threat, although Grant,
in his newly assumed position as commander of the Department of the
Tennessee, learned from his mistakes and revised his methods in
later operations, leading eventually to the fall of Vicksburg. It
was war done the way academics would want it done, but Grant
figured out quickly that the books did not always have the answers,
and he adapted his approach thereafter. Smith comprehensively
weaves the Mississippi Central, Chickasaw Bayou, Van Dorn Raid, and
Forrest Raid operations into a chronological narrative while
illustrating the combination of various branches and services such
as army movements, naval operations, and cavalry raids. Early
Struggles for Vicksburg is accordingly the first comprehensive
academic book ever to examine the Mississippi Central/Chickasaw
Bayou campaign and is built upon hundreds of soldier-level sources.
Massive in research and scope, this book covers everything from the
top politicians and generals down to the individual soldiers, as
well as civilians and slaves making their way to freedom, while
providing analysis of contemporary military theory to explain why
the operations took the form they did.
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