The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign
Shelby Foote
368 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0679601708
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Language: English
Publish: 807865200000
American Civil WarAmerican HistoryCivil WarCivil War HistoryHistoryMilitary FictionMilitary HistoryNonfictionWar
The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant’s siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote’s narrative of the great battles of the Civil War–culled from his massive three-volume history–recounting a campaign which Lincoln called “one of the most brilliant in the world.”