Bibliograph

The beleaguered city, the Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863, Shelby Foote

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The beleaguered city, the Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863, Shelby Foote

Language

eng

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The beleaguered city

Oclc number

32238590

Responsibility statement

Shelby Foote

Sub title

the Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863

Summary

Follows the course of Grant's siege of the port of Vicksburg, Mississippi, discusses the strategies of both sides, and assesses the performance and personal objectives of officers from both the Union and Confederate armies. The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant's siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote's narrative of the great battles of the Civil War--culled from his massive three-volume history-recounting a campaign which Lincoln called one of the most brilliant in the world. Shelby Foote has drawn from his epic account another of the Civil War's most dramatic episodes, the taking of the city of Vicksburg by the Union forces. Ulysses S. Grant fought a long campaign over tricky terrain to get to the heavily fortified city. All the while, he had to fend off his colleague and rival General John McClernand, who decided that his aspirations to Lincoln's White House could best be realized by his possession of Vicksburg. When the city fell on July 4, 1863, after a protracted siege, it was a personal triumph for Grant and contributed largely to his later promotion to command of all the Union armies. Lincoln said that his general's campaign to reach Vicksburg had been one of the most brilliant in the world

Target audience

adult

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