Engineers in Union blue and Confederate gray played a prominent role in the Vicksburg campaigns of 1862-1863. Although their contributions have largely gone unnoticed in published works on the ...
Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...
Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...
ZUMBROTA — Ulysses S. Grant became was a hero of the Civil War and two-term president of the United States, and much of that stemmed from his victory in July 1863 at Vicksburg. That victory, along ...
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xx, 380. Illus., maps, order of battle, notes, biblio., index. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 1469684101 Hess’s ...
Before William Tecumseh Sherman's famous Civil War march to the sea in Georgia, the Union general joined Gen. Ulysses Grant's siege of Vicksburg, a series of battles that effectively severed the ...
Before William Tecumseh Sherman's famous Civil War march to the sea in Georgia, the Union general joined Gen. Ulysses Grant's siege of Vicksburg, a series of battles that effectively severed the ...