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Dr, Michael Ballard has written an excellent book on the Vicksburg Campaign. Ballard has had good mentors in his study of the Mississippi River City which fell to US Grant in July, 1863.

Dr, Michael Ballard has written an excellent book on the Vicksburg Campaign. He is has been guided by Terry Wenschel the National Park Chief Historian; read the massive three volume work by Mr. Civil. War Ed Bearss on the campaign and is a lifelong native of Mississipi who has visited Vicksburg since his youth. Vicksburg was a complex campaign pitting the inept Northern Born Confederate General John Pemberton against the aggressive and brilliant US Grant.

This book takes a broader scope of the campaign, including operations on the Mississippi (not all of them against Vicksburg) .

This book takes a broader scope of the campaign, including operations on the Mississippi (not all of them against Vicksburg) before Grant.

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Ballard, Michael B. The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and . Brooks Tomblin, Barbara. The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. Barney, William L. The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 (University of Alabama Press. The Civil War on the Mississippi: Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River (University Press of Kentucky, 2016). The Vicksburg Campaign: Strategy, Battles and Key Figures (McFarland, 2015). Freedom's women: Black women and families in Civil War era Mississippi (Indiana UP, 1999).

The challenge of taking this city on a hill and the importance of the navy are all well explained here.

Home Browse Books Book details, Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the. Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. By Michael B. Ballard. In a thorough yet concise study of the longest single military campaign of the Civil War, Michael B. Ballard brings new depth to our understanding of the Vicksburg campaign by considering its human as well as its military aspects. Ballard examines soldier attitudes, guerrilla warfare, and the effects of the campaign and siege on civilians in and around Vicksburg.

Michael B. Ballard’s new book on the Vicksburg campaign offers a refreshing experience

Michael B. Ballard’s new book on the Vicksburg campaign offers a refreshing experience. It may not be surprising that a Mississippi historian would put a slightly Southern slant on the campaign, but Ballard’s point of view is in keeping with modern scholarship. This is not a history that romanticizes the Lost Cause, nor is the author dismissive of Grant, although he does not seem very fond of him. What this narrative excels at is presenting the human side of history.

Ballard examines soldier attitudes, guerrilla warfare, and the effects of the campaign and siege on civilians in and around Vicksburg. Michael B. Ballard is author of "Civil War Mississippi: A Guide" and many other books

Ballard examines soldier attitudes, guerrilla warfare, and the effects of the campaign and siege on civilians in and around Vicksburg. He also analyzes the leadership and interaction of such key figures as . Grant, William T. Sherman, John Pemberton, and Joseph E. Johnston, among others. Ballard is author of "Civil War Mississippi: A Guide" and many other books. He lives in Ackerman, Mississippi.

From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin .

From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were waged and fighting occurred. Author Michael B. Ballard discusses at length minority troops and others glossed over or lost in studies of the Mississippi military during the war. Lisätietoja. Lisää kirjoittajalta Michael Ballard.

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Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War. The Union victory at Vicksburg was hailed with as much celebration in the North as the Gettysburg victory and Ballard makes a convincing case that it was equally important to the ultimate resolution of the conflict. Civil War America (Paperback).