Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign /
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
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| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
1998
Lawrence, Kan. : c1998 Lawrence, Kan. : [1998] |
| Series: | U.S. Army War College guides to Civil War battles
U.S. Army War College guides to Civil War battles |
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Table of Contents:
- Fortress Vicksburg
- Grant takes command
- "A perfect concert of action"
- Operations west of the river
- Operations along Yazoo Pass and Fort Pemberton
- Running the batteries
- Grierson's Raid
- Operations below Vicksburg
- Battle of Port Gibson
- Evolution of the operational plan
- Grant's indirect approach
- The Battle of Champion Hill
- Generals at odds
- The siege
- The Fall of Vicksburg
- Phase 1 : Winter 1862-63 operations
- Phase 2 : Isolating Vicksburg
- Phase 3 : The Union Army crosses into Mississippi