Guide to the Vicksburg campaign / edited by Leonard Fullenkamp, Stephen Bowman, and Jay Luvaas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fullenkamp, Leonard.

Bowman, Stephen.

Luvaas, Jay.

Series:

U.S. Army War College guides to Civil War battles

The U.S. Army War College guides to Civil War battles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863.

Vicksburg (Miss.).

Vicksburg National Military Park (Miss.)--Guidebooks.

Vicksburg National Military Park (Miss.).

Historic sites--Mississippi--Vicksburg Region--Guidebooks.

Historic sites.

Mississippi--Vicksburg Region.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

xiii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1998]

Summary:

In the same week that Union forces triumphed at Gettysburg, they also captured the river fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Although much less memorialized than Gettysburg, the fall of Vicksburg was every bit as crucial to the Union cause.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-472) and index.

ISBN:

0700609229

0700609237

OCLC:

39223547