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by Alan Hankinson

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Alan Hankinson

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Praeger; First Edition edition (August 19, 2004)

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The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Known as the 'Gibraltar of the West', Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. In a masterly campaign Grant used riverboats and steamers to land his army south of the city. He then defeated the armies of Generals 'Joe' Johnston and John C. Pemberton

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Grant's Vicksburg campaign is studied as a masterpiece of military operations and a major turning point of the war. Contents. On April 16, a clear night with no moon, Porter sent seven gunboats and three empty troop transports loaded with stores to run the bluff, taking care to minimize noise and lights. But the preparations were ineffective. Confederate sentries sighted the boats, and the bluff exploded with massive artillery fire.

The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War. Known as the Gibraltar of the West, Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. In a masterly campaign, the Union General Ulysses S Grant used riverboats and steamers to land his army south of the city, where he defeated the armies of Generals Joe Johnston and John C. Pemberton. Pemberton's men became bottled up in Vicksburg, where they endured an epic 47 day siege before surrendering to Grant on July 4, 1863, one day after Lee's defeat at Gettysburg.

The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive in the outcome of the American Civil War. Known as the 'Gibraltar of the West', Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; the only communication route left between the department of the Trans-Mississippi west of the river and the body of the Confederacy. In a masterly campaign Grant used riverboats and steamers to run his army past the batteries at Vicksburg and land south of the city. He then defeated the armies of Generals 'Joe' Johnston and John C. Pemberton. Pemberton allowed his force to become bottled up in Vicksburg and after an epic 47-day siege during which his men were reduced to eating cats, dogs and even rats, he was forced to surrender the remnants of his force to Grant on 4 July 1863, one day after Lee's defeat at Gettysburg. This was a long campaign, lasting some nine months altogether and featured forced marches, much devising and revising of plans, massive works of engineering on roads, bridges and waterways, a bold amphibious operation on the Mississippi, a rapid fighting advance of dash and brilliance, several pitched battles, and a final, relentless siege.

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"Vicksburg 1863" is an entry in the Osprey Campaign series, authored by Alan Hankinson. It follows the excellent Osprey format in offering a concise narrative of the Vicksburg Campaign of 1862-1863 in the context of the American Civil War, along with lots of period illustrations, depictions of soldier uniforms, maps, and graphics of the various battlefields.

The author chose to center his narrative around Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant, who commanded Union forces in western Tennessee in 1862 and who undertook the reduction of the Confederate fortress at Vicksburg on the Mississippi River. Grant's legendary tenacity is very much in evidence as he experimented with a variety of approaches to Vicksburg, which was well-defended both by Confederate forces and by a series of significant natural obstacles. Grant would finally hit on a daring method to attack Vicksburg, one that required him to cut loose from his supply lines, insert his forces between two Confederate armies, and beat both of them while operating deep in Confederate territory. The narrative fully captures the high drama of the campaign, and its history-changing consequences.

"Vicksburg 1863" has some faults. There are a number of repeated and annoying misspellings of the names of general officers. The author's short biographical sketch of U.S. Grant is perhaps overly simplified, he spends little time on important related actions by another Union Army in Louisiana, and his discussion of Grant's relationship with his chain of command, including senior Union General Henry Halleck, is dated and unnuanced. Most of these errors and omissions will however be transparent to the general reader and to the student seeking an introduction to the campaign; "Vicksburg 1863" is recommended to that audience.

Moogura

Informative but concise overview of Grant's masterful campaign.

Nuadazius

Does not contain a detailed breakdown of Orders of Battle for the Vicksburg Campaign. For a straight narrative approach, Shelby Foote's "The Beleagered City" is a superior source.

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