Product Highlights
The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863, from Casemate (ISBN 9781636243900), examines the Union and Confederate movements around Vicksburg, Mississippi, from March through July 1863, when Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army and Rear Adm. David Dixon Porter's gunboats combined to besiege and capture the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
Features
- 128 pages
- Over 100 illustrations
- Softcover, 9.5" x 6.75"
About the campaign
After earlier attempts to reach high ground near Vicksburg were stalled by swampy terrain and Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's defenses, Grant marched his corps down the Louisiana side of the river while Porter ran his gunboats past Vicksburg's batteries, enabling a crossing of the Mississippi and an approach on the city from the east that ended with its surrender on July 4, 1863.
