Vicksburg
Subtitle: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi (Civil War America)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780807828939
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Battles & campaigns; United States - Civil War; History: American; History - Military / War; Mississippi; Vicksburg (Miss.); Military - United States; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Vicksburg campaign; U.S. Grant; William T. Sherman; David Farragut; David Dixon Porter; John Pemberton; Joseph Johnston; Earl Van Dorn; John Bowen; naval attacks; overland operations; key battles; Chickasaw Bayou; Port Gibson; Raymond ; Jackson; Champion Hill; Big Black; Vicksburg assults and siege; soldier life; civilians; towns; guerrilla war; History; Siege, 1863
First sentence: While the United States was still a young republic, pioneers moving west noticed attractive land sitting on high bluffs above a sharp hairpin turn in the Mississippi River.