Vicksburg Besieged Woodworth Steven E.
A detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siegeVicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General Ulysses…
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A detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siegeVicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General Ulysses S. Grant's 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 Campaign's final phase, nine prominent historians and emerging scholars provide in-depth analysis of previously unexamined aspects of the historic siege.Ranging in scope from military to social history, the contributors' invitingly written essays examine the role of Grant's staff, the critical contributions of African American troops to the Union Army of the Tennessee, both sides' use of sharpshooters and soldiers' opinions about them, unusual nighttime activities between the Union siege lines and