Grant at Vicksburg [electronic resource] : the general and the siege / Michael B. Ballard.
On May 22, 1863, after two failed attempts to take the city of Vicksburg by assault, Major General Ulysses S. Grant declared in a letter to the commander of the Union fleet on the Mississippi River that "the nature of the ground about Vicksburg is such that it can only be taken by a siege."...
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Table of Contents:
- Long road to Vicksburg
- A regular siege and paranoia
- River of lies
- Rampant racism
- Congressman and coterie
- Closely hemmed in
- Big black, black powder, brush fires
- Surrender, clutter, impact.