ASIN: B09F3TWVC6
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 74
Explore the Vicksburg campaign and the events surrounding this pivotal time in the American Civil War.Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg campaign was the most outlandish maneuver of the American Civil War and included the largest amphibious military approach until the advent of the Second World War. Grant is widely heralded as the first amongst the leaders of modern warfare, and along with a good set of commanders and the considerable Army of the Tennessee, he used his charge on Vicksburg to dominate the Western Theater of the war during the summer of 1863.The Union held the Confederate troops, which were under the leadership of the tactically inferior General John Pemberton, inside the ramparts of Vicksburg for a punishing six weeks. The town, perched on the high natural bluffs of the eastern Mississippi River, had been fortified to the extent that it was impenetrable, even by ...
