This book examines the Vicksburg campaign—a critical turning point during the American Civil War—from the perspective of Texans and the rest of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy.
... great quantities of food, forage and ammunition. Another Confederate cavalry leader, the legendary Nathan Bedford Forrest, had already been ranging and raiding across northern Mississippi and western Tennessee, destroying rail and.
The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War.
This book examines the Vicksburg campaign—a critical turning point during the American Civil War—from the perspective of Texans and the rest of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy.
The prolonged 1863 Vicksburg campaign featured culminated in a final, relentless siege and a decisive Union victory just one day after Gettysburg. It was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War.