Title: Holly Springs : Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas, and the raid that saved Vicksburg /
Authors: Beck, Brandon H., 1944-
Publisher: History Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Van Dorn, Earl,; Arkansas (Confederate ram); Holly Springs (Miss.) History, Military; Vicksburg (Miss.) History; Mississippi History Campaigns.
Contents: Vicksburg: "Mississippians don't know, and refuse to learn, how to surrender" -- "Our bold young leader" and the CSS Arkansas -- General Van Dorn and Colonel Murphy: charges dismissed -- Holly Springs and the Mississippi Central Railroad -- Grant: on the square in Oxford -- "Van Dorn, than whom no braver man lives" -- Van Dorn on the square in Holly Springs -- Lifelines and "the rending pain of memory".