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Sam Grant had his faults, but he was always willing to fight, and often able to win. Frustrated by a tactical stalemate in Virginia in 1863 Ulysses S. Grant embarked upon a strategy of strangling the Confederate supply line on the Mississippi. Central to the Union strategy was the capture of the Confederate-held Mississippi town of Vicksburg.Grant combined the coolness under fire necessary for operational command with a storekeeper''s ability to figure odds, anticipate supply needs, and calculate rates of movement of his own and his opponent''s armies. Facing him was a determined and talented Confederate opposition. Nathan Bedford Forrest''s campaign of protracted cavalry raids frequently placed Grant''s supplies and reinforcements in constant jeopardy. Isaac Brown and his scratch-built Confederate ironclad Arkansas took on the Union river fleet single-handedly, writing one of the most interesting chapters in American naval history. Inside the besieged Vicksburg itself, Southern soldie

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      Publisher: Hachette Books
      Publication Date: 10/16/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780306812194, 978-0306812194
      ISBN10: 0306812193
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      Book Synopsis
      Sam Grant had his faults, but he was always willing to fight, and often able to win. Frustrated by a tactical stalemate in Virginia in 1863 Ulysses S. Grant embarked upon a strategy of strangling the Confederate supply line on the Mississippi. Central to the Union strategy was the capture of the Confederate-held Mississippi town of Vicksburg.Grant combined the coolness under fire necessary for operational command with a storekeeper''s ability to figure odds, anticipate supply needs, and calculate rates of movement of his own and his opponent''s armies. Facing him was a determined and talented Confederate opposition. Nathan Bedford Forrest''s campaign of protracted cavalry raids frequently placed Grant''s supplies and reinforcements in constant jeopardy. Isaac Brown and his scratch-built Confederate ironclad Arkansas took on the Union river fleet single-handedly, writing one of the most interesting chapters in American naval history. Inside the besieged Vicksburg itself, Southern soldie

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