Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636243733
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2024
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: Casemate Illustrated
Illustrations: 100-120 photographs, artworks and maps
Description:
The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi stands as the prime example of how the Civil War would be fought and won. The Federal government’s policy of blockading the southern ports and controlling the inland waterways would only be successful with total control of the country’s largest river. Technological advances created by the war itself and used by progressive thinking Federal and Confederate commanders ensured that this vital southern supply and logistics base would be the focal point of the war on the western waters.