Vicksburg, 1863 / Winston Groom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Groom, Winston, 1944-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Vicksburg (Miss.).

Mississippi River Valley--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Mississippi River Valley.

History.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Physical Description:

x, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Contents:

Part I The War Moves South

Chapter One And So the Ball Was Opened 23

Chapter Two It Was There That War Found Him 40

Chapter Three U.S. "Unconditional Surrender" Grant 61

Chapter Four I Will Do the Best I Can 82

Chapter Five The Anaconda Squeezes 100

Chapter Six Mississippians Don't Know, and Refuse to Learn, How to Surrender 124

Chapter Seven Sometimes Now We Can Get the Papers 141

Part II Vicissitudes

Chapter Eight Grant Begins to Stir 165

Chapter Nine Until It Pleases God to Take Me . . . 181

Chapter Ten I Reached Vicksburg, Landed, Assaulted, and Failed 203

Chapter Eleven If You Can't Smile, Grin! 221

Chapter Twelve When We Can Do No Better We Will Blow Them Up 237

Chapter Thirteen I Fear Grant Won't Do 262

Chapter Fourteen So Thick a Snake Couldn't Wriggle Through It 279

Part III The Corpse Factory

Chapter Fifteen The Enemy Will Soon Be upon Us 303

Chapter Sixteen Shut Up as in a Trap 329

Chapter Seventeen A Corpse Factory 354

Chapter Eighteen Martha Says Rats Are Hanging in the Market for Sale with the Mule Meat 380

Chapter Nineteen The Father of Waters Again Goes Unvexed to the Sea 405

Chapter Twenty They'd All Be Dead Anyhow 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780307264251

0307264254

OCLC:

236339246