Blood on the Bayou
Subtitle: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi
Publisher: State House Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781933337630
Description: "Blood on the Bayour cover the final, decisive campaigns for control of the Mississippi River Valley from May to July 1863, but it argues that events west of the Mississippi were as important as those occurring on the eastern shore. Culminating in the sieges of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Union efforts also included a determination to liberate-and arm-as many slaves in the region as they could. The Confederates, desperate to avoid the calamity of losing both their forts and what they considered their chattel preperty, fought back with determination and imagination hoping to somehow affect the outcome of these campaigns despite long odds."--