Storming Vicksburg : Grant, Pemberton, and the battles of May 19-22, 1863

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Label

Storming Vicksburg : Grant, Pemberton, and the battles of May 19-22, 1863

Title remainder

Grant, Pemberton, and the battles of May 19-22, 1863

Statement of responsibility

Earl J. Hess

Creator

• Hess, Earl J

Author

• Hess, Earl J

Subject

• Military campaigns
• Mississippi
• Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
• Mississippi -- Vicksburg
• United States
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
• Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863
• 1861-1865
• History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Here Earl J. Hess offers an in-depth military history of a critical phase of the long federal campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War. Hess focuses on the period from May 18-23, 1863, comprising the end of Ulysses S. Grant's overland march to the rear of the city and the beginning of his siege. These five days were a watershed in the development of Grant's eight months-long campaign to capture the Gibraltar of the Confederacy. His hope of ending the campaign quickly by assaulting the city's fortifications on May 19 and 22 were crushed by the failure of those attacks. The only recourse was a siege that extended federal operations against Vicksburg another six weeks"--

Member of

• Civil War America (Series)

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NcU/DLC

Dewey number

973.7/344

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E475.27

LC item number

.H47 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Civil War America