The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 8: April 1 - July 6, 1863

ISBN-13: 9780809308842 / Angielski / Twarda / 1979 / 640 str.

Ulysses S. Grant; John Y. Simon

Opis

Following the 1862-63 winter of dis-content, Grant suddenly launched a brilliant campaign against Vicksburg which ultimately bisected the Confeder-acy. A long campaign, which had begun in November 1862, with an advance from Tennessee down the Mississippi Central Railroad and a premature assault on Vicksburg in December by troops under Sherman, and which had been fol-lowed by long months of false starts and apparent inactivity in the bayou country north of the city and across the Mis-sissippi River in Louisiana, suddenly reached a quick and dramatic conclu-sion, as the events in this volume show.