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ON, MAY 25, 1863, after generating the Confederate army into protective lines adjoining Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union major standard Ulysses S. Grant and his Military of the Tennessee laid siege to the fortress city. Without reinforcements and dwindling items, the Military of Vicksburg finally surrendered on July 4, yielding order of the Mississippi River to Union makes and effectively severing the Confederacy. In this illuminating amount, Justin S. Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant's midwesterners offering in the Military of the Tennessee built the siege of Vicksburg, putting the function within the broader context of US and European military services background and 19th-century applied science in trench warfare and field fortifications. In doing so, he shatters the Lost Cause misconception that Vicksburg's Confederate garrison surrendered due to lack of provisions. Instead of being starved out, Solonick clarifies, the Confederates were dug out. The e book is published by Southern Illinois University Press.
