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Vicksburg

The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi

Michael B. Ballard

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/2005
Pages: 512
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807876213

DESCRIPTION

Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War. The Union victory at Vicksburg was hailed with as much celebration in the North as the Gettysburg victory and Ballard makes a convincing case that it was equally important to the ultimate resolution of the conflict.

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