Vicksburg
Subtitle: Fall of the Confederate Gibraltar (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series)
Publisher: McWhiney Foundation Press
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781893114005
Subjects: American history; Civil war; Military History - U.S. Civil War; History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; Military - United States; United States - Civil War
First sentence: Biographer and newspaperman Lloyd Lewis accurately portrayed the Mississippi River in the mid-nineteenth century as "The spinal column of America...the symbol of geographic unity."