Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...
Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.26248937.3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.26248937.3 John S. Kountz was a happy man that August of 1895. He had seemingly reached the top ...
VICKSBURG, Miss. - Peace and beauty rule where thousands of Union and Confederate troops once confronted each other in a deadly standoff. The Vicksburg National Military Park runs through rolling ...
Mississippi Inland Campaign by Grant The two forces of Confederates in the area included 26,500 soldiers at the garrison of Vicksburg and 5000 soldiers at Jackson. Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton ...
DES MOINES --- One hundred and fifty years ago today, scores of Iowans serving in the Union Army were dug in, laying siege to the Mississippi town of Vicksburg. Two assaults, one on May 19, 1863, and ...