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Book SynopsisIn the latest volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign of the US Civil War, Timothy Smith offers the first book-length examination of Ulysses S. Grant’s winter waterborne attempts to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Trade ReviewBayou 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 CombatTable of Contents
- List 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
