Champion Hill : decisive battle for Vicksburg / Timothy B. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Timothy B., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Champion Hill, Battle of, Miss., 1863.

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

Vicksburg (Miss.).

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

Mississippi.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 502 p. ) ill., maps

Edition:

1st Savas Beatie pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Savas Beatie, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Mississippi battle between Grant's and Pemberton's forces that sealed Vicksburg's fate. The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The fighting on May 16, 1863, took place just twenty miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses S.Grant's Federal army attacked Lt. Gen. John C.Pemberton's hastily gathered Confederates. The bloody fighting seesawed back and forth until superior Union leadership broke apart the Southern line, sending Pemberton's army into headlong retreat. The victory on Mississippi's wooded hills sealed the fate of both Vicksburg and her large field army, propelled Grant into the national spotlight, and earned him the command of the entire US armed forces. Timothy Smith, a historian for the National Park Service, has written the definitive account of this long-overlooked battle. This book, winner of a nonfiction prize from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, is grounded upon years of primary research, rich in analysis and strategic and tactical action, and a compelling read.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: New York : Savas Beatle, c2006 (502 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.)

ISBN:

9786613259028

9781283259026

1283259028

9781611210002

1611210003

OCLC:

939263218