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Sherman's Mississippi campaign / Buck T. Foster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, Buckley Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strategy--Case studies.
- Strategy.
- Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- Mississippi.
- Meridian (Miss.)--History, Military--19th century.
- Meridian (Miss.).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891--Military leadership.
- Sherman, William T.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The rehearsal for the March to the Sea. With the fall of Vicksburg to Union forces in mid-1863, the Federals began work to extend and consolidate their hold on the lower Mississippi Valley. As a part of this plan, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman set out from Vicksburg on February 3, 1864, with an army of some 25,000 infantry and a battalion of cavalry. They expected to be joined by another Union force moving south from Memphis and supported themselves off the land as they traveled due east across Mississippi. She
- Contents:
- Sherman's transformation
- The plan
- "We whipped him handsomely"
- "A miss is as good as a mile"
- Meridian falls
- "One of the most pestiferous nests
- in all the limits of Dixie"
- An opportunity lost
- "Meridian
- no longer exists".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8132-5
- OCLC:
- 209097093
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