Engineering Victory(1st Edition) The Union Siege of Vicksburg by JustinS. Solonick Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3391-2, ISBN: 0-8093-3391-0
"On May 25, 1863, after driving the Confederate army into defensive lines surrounding Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union major general Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee laid siege to the fortress city. With no reinforcements and dwindling supplies, the Army of Vicksburg finally surrendered on July 4, yielding command of the Mississippi River to Union forces and effectively severing the Confederacy. In this illuminating volume, Ju ..."
"A detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siege Vicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General Ulysses S. Grant’s forty-day siege ended the stalemate and, on July 4, 1863, destroyed Confederate control of the Mississippi River. In the first anthology to examine the Vicksburg Campaign’s final phase, nine prominent historians and emerging sc ..."
Engineering Victory The Union Siege of Vicksburg by JustinS. Solonick Paperback, Published 2024 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3934-1, ISBN: 0-8093-3934-X
"In this illuminating volume, Justin S. Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant’s midwesterners serving in the Army of the Tennessee engineered the siege of Vicksburg, placing the event within the broader context of U.S. and ..."
"When the Confederates emerged as victors in the Chickamauga Campaign, the Union Army of the Cumberland lay under siege in Chattanooga, with Braxton Bragg s Army of Tennessee on nearby high ground at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. A win at Chattanooga was essential for the Confederates, both to capitalize on the victory at Chickamauga and to keep control of the gateway to the lower South. Should the Federal troops wrest control o ..."
Engineering Victory The Union Siege of Vicksburg by JustinS. Solonick 289 Pages, Published 2015 by Siu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3392-9, ISBN: 0-8093-3392-9
"Meanwhile, Phillip M. Thienel writes on Union bridge-building during Grant's
maneuver campaign in ... Bridge Builders, and Philip Shiman refers to Vicksburg
sporadically in his report “Army Engineers in the War for the Union, 1861–1865.”
Yet ..."
The Siege of Vicksburg Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith 752 Pages, Published 2021 by University Press Of Kansas ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-3225-1, ISBN: 0-7006-3225-5
The Calculus of Violence(1st Edition) How Americans Fought the Civil War by Aaron Sheehan-Dean Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2018 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-98422-6, ISBN: 0-674-98422-6
Soldiers from Experience The Forging of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke 313 Pages, Published 2022 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7875-1, ISBN: 0-8071-7875-6