Vicksburg
Subtitle: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi (Civil War America)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 15, 2010
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780807871287
Subjects: History -- Americas -- United States -- Civil War; History -- Military -- United States
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.