Storming Vicksburg Grant, Pemberton, and the battles of May 19-22, 1863
"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 a...
| Main Author: | Hess, Earl J. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: |
Civil War America (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- They are upon us: May 17
- On the war-path for Vicksburg: May 18
- A long dreadful day: Fifteenth Corps, May 19
- I hope every man will follow me: Seventeenth and Thirteenth Corps, May 19
- This will be a hard place to take: May 20-21
- Dismay and bewilderment: Blair, May 22
- Now, boys, you must do your duty: McPherson, May 22
- The horror of the thing bore me down like an avalanche: McClernand and Osterhaus, May 22
- Boys, you have just fifteen minutes to live: 2nd Texas Lunette, May 22
- A thousand bayonets glistened in the sunlight: railroad redoubt, May 22
- I don't believe a word of it: Grant, Sherman, and McClernand, May 22
- Am holding position but suffering awfully: Blair, Ransom, and Tuttle, May 22
- It made the tears come to my eyes: Steele, May 22
- Boys, don't charge those works: Logan and Quinby, May 22
- It is absolutely necessary that they be dislodged: reclaiming railroad redoubt, May 22
- An ardent desire to participate in the capture of Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, Porter, and McArthur, May 22
- I feel sad but not discouraged: making sense of May 22
- I am surfeited, sick, and tired of witnessing bloodshed: casualties, wounded, prisoners
- No one would have supposed that we were mortal enemies: burial, mourning
- They ought to be remembered: honors, infamy, life stories
- Eventful on the page of history: commemoration.