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Holly Springs : Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas, and the raid that saved Vicksburg / Brandon H. Beck.

Title
Holly Springs : Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas, and the raid that saved Vicksburg / Brandon H. Beck.
Author
Beck, Brandon H., 1944-
Publication
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.

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124 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas, and the raid that saved Vicksburg
Subject
  • Van Dorn, Earl, 1820-1863
  • Arkansas (Confederate ram)
  • Holly Springs (Miss.) > History, Military > 19th century
  • Vicksburg (Miss.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Mississippi > Campaigns. > Civil War, 1861-1865
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Vicksburg: "Mississippians don't know, and refuse to learn, how to surrender" -- "Our bold young leader" and the CSS Arkansas -- General Van Dorn and Colonel Murphy: charges dismissed -- Holly Springs and the Mississippi Central Railroad -- Grant: on the square in Oxford -- "Van Dorn, than whom no braver man lives" -- Van Dorn on the square in Holly Springs -- Lifelines and "the rending pain of memory".
ISBN
  • 9781609490492
  • 1609490495
LCCN
^^2011039232
OCLC
754518583
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library