Union Assaults at Vicksburg just balls by Joseph L

by Joseph L

He has heard the rolling thunder of the guns and knows that he will soon be plunged into the nightmare world of the Army Surgeon

Following an introduction by renowned Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer

by Gary Gallagher

Union Assaults at Vicksburg just balls by Joseph LThe Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 1722, 1863 Timothy B. Smith It was the third week of May 1863, and after seven months and six attempts, Ulysses S. Grant was finally at the doorstep of Vicksburg. What followed was a series of attacks and maneuvers against the last major section of the Mississippi River controlled by the Confederacyand one of the most important operations of the Civil War. Grant intended to end the campaign