The siege of Vicksburg : climax of the campaign to open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863 /

The capture of Vicksburg by the US Army was one of the most important military events of the American Civil War because it opened the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy in two. The siege operations in and of themselves have a lot to offer to our understanding of the campaign and the war, the...

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