Vicksburg Besieged by Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear,... - 9780809337835

Name: Vicksburg Besieged by Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear,... - 9780809337835
Brand: Southern Illinois University Press

Southern Illinois University Press

Vicksburg BesiegedAuthor(s): Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines, Martin J. Hershock, Richard H. Holloway, Justin S. Solonick, Scott L. Stabler, Jonathan M. Steplyk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press, United States\nImprint: Southern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9780809337835, 978-0809337835\nSynopsis\nA detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siege\n\n Vicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General Ulysses S. Grants forty-day siege ended the stalemate and, on July 4, 1863, destroyed Confederate control of the Mississippi River. In the first anthology to examine the Vicksburg Campaigns final phase, nine prominent historians and emerging scholars provide in-depth analysis of previously unexamined aspects of the historic siege.\n\n Ranging in scope from military to social history, the contributors invitingly written e.