The Final Fortress: The Campaign for Vicksburg 1862-1863
By Samuel Carter.
Description
The Final Fortress is the first comprehensive story of this prodigious struggle, from 1861, when the city was initially singled out by Lincoln as the key target for a major Union victory, through the grueling two=year effort to take it both by sea and by land. The great battle is examined from the strategic military standpoint offered by the Official Orders of the War, published by the Federal government, and through the intimate recollections of soldiers and civilians, Yankees and Rebels alike. The author vividly recounts the stories of a Union inventor creating a unique war machine; a Co...
ISBN(s)
031283926X, 9780312839260
