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The study of the Civil War in the Western Theater is more popular
now than ever before, and the center of that interest is the
months-long Vicksburg Campaign, which is the subject of National
Park Historian Terrence J. Winschel's book Triumph & Defeat:
The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol 2, now in paperback. Following up on
the popular success of his earlier book of the same name, Winschel
offers ten new chapters of insights into what has been declared by
many to have been the most decisive campaign of the Civil War.
Designed to appeal to both general readers and serious students,
Winschel's essays cover a wide range of topics. Winschel's chapters
include detailed coverage of military operations, naval
engagements, leading personalities, and even an essay about a
specific family (the Lords) caught up in the nightmarish 47-day
siege that nearly cost them their lives. Smoothly written and
deeply researched, these fresh chapters offer balanced and
comprehensive analysis written with the authority that only someone
who has served as Vicksburg's Chief Historian since 1978 can
produce. Bolstered by photographs, illustrations, and numerous
outstanding original maps, this second volume in the Triumph&
Defeat series will stand as a lasting contribution to the study of
the Civil War. Author Terry Winschel, chief historian at Vicksburg
National Military Park, weaves a professional lifetime of personal
experience and scholarship into this remarkable study. His chapters
cover every major aspect of what many consider to have been the
decisive military achievement of the war--the capture of"The
Gibraltar of the Confederacy."
The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle is the story of the
Louisiana soldiers who fought at Vicksburg, as told through their
letters, diaries, and remembrances. Most histories of this famous
Civil War siege have been written by the victors; this one presents
a day-by-day account from the Confederate vantage point. Indeed,
these long-dead men come to life as we read their experiences and
perceptions told in their own voices, which ring clear and without
apology. In 1862 the Dixie Rebels of DeSoto Parish left for New
Orleans. They and other Louisianians were formed into regiments and
dispatched for Vicksburg. In the year that followed, the troops
witnessed the shelling of Vicksburg by Union gunboats, the outbreak
of disease, the lonely heroics of the Confederate ironclad Arkansas
, the daily drudgery of camp life, and Jeff Davis's visit to the
beleaguered city. With immediacy and in intriguing detail several
correspondents describe daily life in the trenches from their
individual perspectives during each of the forty-seven days of the
siege. Yet their stories do not end with the capitulation of the
city, but continue in an epilogue as the troops return home and
then continue their service for the balance of the war. Their
experiences transcended their own worlds. These young men of
Louisiana still have something important to tell us.
From the beginning of the Civil War the Confederate bastion at
Vicksburg thwarted Federal hopes for gaining control of the
all-important Mississippi River and cutting the far-flung
Confederacy in half. By 1863, despite Federal successes at New
Orleans and Memphis, Vicksburg stood defiant, keeping open the flow
of badly needed supplies from the Trans-Mississippi West to the
major Confederate armies in the East. But that year, an unlikely
new Federal hero--scruffy, cigar-smoking Ulyssess S.
Grant--prepared to launch an all out and highly risky campaign to
topple the "Confederate Gibraltar." After several often imaginative
but unsuccessful attempts to force the Rebels from their
Mississippi stronghold, Grant closed in on one of the great prizes
of the war. Around Vicksburg, General John C. Pemberton's
hard-pressed Confederates held on desperately, expecting relief
that never came. This, then, is the story of one of the war's
longest and most decisive campaigns, told by one of its foremost
authorities.
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