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Bayou Battles for Vicksburg : The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Kansas
ISBN-100700635661
ISBN-139780700635665
eBay Product ID (ePID)16059108244
Product Key Features
Book TitleBayou Battles for Vicksburg : the Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30 1863
Number of Pages552 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / General
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorTimothy B. Smith
Book SeriesModern War Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight33.9 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
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LCCN2023-000411
Reviews" Bayou Battles for Vicksburg continues the exhaustive research and clear analysis that marks Timothy Smith's impressive catalog. This chronicle of battles against man and nature fittingly takes its place in Smith's masterful multivolume study of the campaign to conquer the Gibraltar of the Mississippi."-- Jonathan M. Steplyk , author of Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat
Table Of ContentList of Maps List of Illustrations Preface Prologue: Vicksburg Not by the Book 1. "We Were Out-Generaled Some Way" 2. "Can the Enemy Intend Another Attempt to Approach Vicksburg?" 3. "We Have Disposed of This Tough Little Nut" 4. "The Work of Changing the Channel of the Mississippi" 5. "But Grant Is on Two Other Projects" 6. "The Prospect of Opening the Pass Is Encouraging" 7. "The Yankee Boats Are Here" 8. "The Enemy Press Me on All Sides" 9. "We Intend to Take the Boats" 10. "This Is the Only Move I Now See as Practicable" 11. "They Are About to Execute Some Plan" 12. "Attracting Attention from Grant" 13. "We Land in the Morning" Epilogue: "But I Was on Dry Ground" Appendix 1: Union Order of Battle for Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863 Appendix 2: Confederate Order of Battle for Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863 Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisThe dawn of 1863 brought a new phase of the Union's Mississippi Valley operations against Vicksburg. For the first four months, Union attempts to reach high and dry ground east of the Mississippi River would be plagued by high water everywhere, and the resulting bayou and river expeditions would test everyone involved, including the defending Confederates. In Bayou Battles for Vicksburg , the latest volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign of the US Civil War, Timothy B. Smith offers the first book-length examination of Ulysses S. Grant's winter waterborne attempts to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The accepted strategy up to this point in the war was aligned with the principles of the Swiss theorist Antoine-Henri Jomini, whose work was taught at West Point, where commanders on both sides of the conflict had been educated. But Jomini emphasized secure supply lines and a slow, steady, unified approach to a target such as Vicksburg, and never had much to say about creeks, rivers, and bayous in a subtropical swamp environment. Grant threw out conventional wisdom with a bold, and ultimately successful, plan to avoid a direct approach and rather divide his forces to accomplish multiple goals and to confuse the enemy by cutting levies, flooding whole sections of watersheds, and bypassing strongholds by digging canals far around them. Bayou Battles for Vicksburg details each of the Union attempts to reach high ground east of the Mississippi River and includes fresh research on the Yazoo Pass and Steele's Bayou expeditions, Grant's canal, and the Lake Providence effort. Smith weaves several simultaneous Union initiatives together into a chronological narrative that provides great detail on the Union's successful final attempt to get to good ground east of the Mississippi.
LC Classification NumberE475.2.S64 2024
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