Triumph & Defeat
Subtitle: The Vicksburg Campaign
Publisher: Savas Publishing
Published: October 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781882810314
Subjects: American history; War & defence operations; Conventional Warfare; Military History - U.S. Civil War; History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; United States - Civil War
First sentence: Biographer and newspaperman Lloyd Lewis accurately portrays the Mississippi River in the mid-nineteenth century as being "The spinal column of America" "the symbol of geographic unity."