Holly Springs
Subtitle: Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas, and the raid that saved Vicksburg
By: Brandon H. Beck
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781609490492
Subjects: Campaigns; Military History; Arkansas (Confederate ram); History
Other titles: Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas, and the raid that saved Vicksburg
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vicksburg: "Mississippians don't know, and refuse to learn, how to surrender"; title: "Our bold young leader" and the CSS Arkansas; title: General Van Dorn and Colonel Murphy: charges dismissed; title: Holly Springs and the Mississippi Central Railroad; title: Grant: on the square in Oxford; title: "Van Dorn, than whom no braver man lives"; title: Van Dorn on the square in Holly Springs; title: Lifelines and "the rending pain of memory".