Yazoo Pass Expedition, a Driving Tour Guide
Title | Yazoo Pass Expedition, a Driving Tour Guide PDF eBook |
Author | David Dumas |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 71 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1477275355 |
This book is designed for the amateur historian who is interested in visiting location related to the Vicksburg campaign. This book contains photographs, locations along with mileage and GPS coordinates of significant places along the march. Also included are excerpts from the "Official Records of the War Rebellion".
Steele's Bayou Expedition, a Driving Tour Guide
Title | Steele's Bayou Expedition, a Driving Tour Guide PDF eBook |
Author | David Dumas |
Publisher | Author House |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2012-10-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147727443X |
This book is designed for the amateur historian who is interested in visiting location related to the Vicksburg campaign. This book contains photographs, locations along with mileage and GPS coordinates of significant places along the march. Also included are excerpts from the Official Records of the War Rebellion.
The Original Vicksburg National Military Park and Vicinity
Title | The Original Vicksburg National Military Park and Vicinity PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Dumas |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2016-12-14 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1524652040 |
The Vicksburg National Military Park as it exists today is about two-thirds the size of the original park. The book describes the park as it was when the park was created. The book contains the name and location of markers and monuments that are currently located in the park. The book contains a brief history of the park, early photographs, descriptions, and styles of state markers and monuments. There are early maps of the park showing all the trenches and approaches. This book will give the park visitor far more insight as to the locations of all the markers that were associated with the park.
Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign
Title | Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Fullenkamp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In the same week that Union forces triumphed at Gettysburg, they also captured the river fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Although much less memorialized than Gettysburg, the fall of Vicksburg was every bit as crucial to the Union cause. Pitting Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman against John Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, the victorious Vicksburg Campaign helped revive a war-weary North, gave it absolute control of the Mississippi River, severed the western Confederacy from the East, and further constricted the South's ability to wage war as the Union drove ever deeper into its heartland. It also gave Grant-the campaign's chief architect-a dramatic venue for demonstrating his maturing skills and intelligence as a strategist and field commander. Unlike other volumes in the U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles series, this one examines an entire campaign, looking at many interlinked battles and joint Army-Navy operations as they played out over seven months and thousands of square miles of rivers, streams, swamps, lakes, forests, hills, and plains surrounding Vicksburg. In addition to detailed coverage of the actual Siege of Vicksburg, the book also chronicles the battles at Jackson, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champions Hill, and Big Black Ridge. Like the other volumes in the series, this one combines eyewitness accounts with maps, illustrations, and tour directions to illuminate the events for both tourists and arm-chair travellers. For anyone interested in learning more about this relatively neglected but pivotal Civil War campaign, the Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign is must reading.
A River Unvexed
Title | A River Unvexed PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Miles |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Pages | 1663 |
Release | 1999-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1620452030 |
The first comprehensive account of the entire campaign for the Mississippi River, beginning with the conquests of Memphis and New Orleans and concluding with Grant's strategies for the siege of Vicksburg. Included are driving tours of the battlefields and important sites.
Smithsonian's Great Battles & Battlefields of the Civil War
Title | Smithsonian's Great Battles & Battlefields of the Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Wertz |
Publisher | William Morrow |
Pages | 866 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Organized by state and cross-referenced chronologically, this authoritative guide to every recorded battle and battlefield of America's bloodiest and most rending war explains the various battles and details the strategies behind troop movements. Lively anecdotes and biographies of the participants--both well-known and obscure--offer the personal perspective that makes history immediate and meaningful. 100+ photos & maps.
Receding Tide
Title | Receding Tide PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin C. Bearss |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1426205104 |
A single day: July 4, 1863, brought to a conclusion two of the most infamous battles of the Civil War. This book tells the story of these two pivotal battles.