Research Catalog

Title

Ninety-eight days : a geographer's view of the Vicksburg Campaign / Warren E. Grabau.

Author

Grabau, Warren.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

United States Civil War Center.

Description

xxviii, 687 p. : maps; 25 cm.

Summary

• "Grant's campaign against Vicksburg has been studied from a number of perspectives - but always with the outcome in the foreground. This documented history of the final phases of the Vicksburg Campaign, from March 29 through July 4, 1863, examines the actions of Union and Confederate commanders as they unfolded, reconstructing their decisions based only on what they knew at any given time."
• "Warren E. Grabau describes the logistical situation at key junctures during the campaign and explains how and why those situations constrained the choices available to Grant and Confederate commander John C. Pemberton. Alternating between Confederate and Federal perspectives, he allows the reader to see the situation as the commanders did and then describes how the available information led to their decisions."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

98 days

Subject

• 1863
• Vicksburg (Miss.) > History > Siege, 1863
• Vicksburg (Miss.) > History > Siege, 1863 > Maps

Genre/Form

• History
• Maps

Note

• "Published in cooperation with the United States Civil War Center."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [655]-661) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Calendar: Early Summer, 1863 -- Order of Events -- The Geographic Setting -- Logistics and Communications -- Defenses of Vicksburg -- Decision -- From Milliken's Bend to Ione -- Running the Batteries -- From Ione Plantation to Hard Times -- Strategy in North Mississippi -- Raids from the North -- Streight versus Forrest: The Raid toward Kingston -- Bryant and Sooy Smith versus Chalmers: The Raid toward Panola -- Grierson: The Deep-Penetration Raid -- Hatch and Cornyn versus Chalmers: The Supporting Raid -- Demonstration at Drumgould's Bluff -- Battle of Grand Gulf -- Landing at Bruinsburg -- Battle of Port Gibson -- Advance to the Big Black River -- Logistics, Communications, and Reinforcements -- Making Trouble in the Trans-Mississippi -- Toward Edwards and the Railroad -- Aiming for the Railroad -- McPherson's Approach March to Raymond -- Confusion Compounded: Battle of Raymond -- The Approach to Jackson -- Too Little and Too Late: Battle of Jackson -- Toward Vicksburg at Last: Countermarch -- The Approach to Champion Hill -- Battle of Champion Hill -- Confrontation -- Temporary Victory -- Counterattack -- Final Breakthrough -- Victory and Defeat -- Hegira of the Confederate Wagon Train -- Pursuit and Retreat -- Rout in the Bridgehead -- Johnston after the Battle of Jackson -- Across the Final Barrier -- Investment of Vicksburg -- First Assault on the Stockade Redan -- Second Assault -- Stockade Redan Complex -- Railroad Redoubt -- Attacks on the Louisiana Posts -- Siege: War by Shovel -- Siege Operations.

ISBN

1572330686 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99050509^

OCLC

42652609

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library