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Tag Archives: 36th Mississippi
BookChat with Timothy B. Smith, author of The Union Assaults on Vicksburg
I was pleased to spend some time recently with the most recent book by historian Timothy B. Smith, The Union Assaults on Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863, published by the University Press of Kansas (find out more about … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged 26th Louisiana, 36th Mississippi, Battle of Vicksburg, BookChat, Francis Shoup, John McClernand, Joseph E. Johnston, Stockade Redan, Timothy B. Smith, Ulysses S. Grant, Union Assaults on Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Vicksburg National Military Park, Winchester Hall
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The Forlorn Hope at Vicksburg
Google “Forlorn Hope” + “Civil War” and several desperate actions show up. “A forlorn hope,” says the Wikipedia entry, which shows up first, “is a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the vanguard in a military operation, … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
Tagged 30th Ohio, 36th Mississippi, 37th Ohio, 47th Ohio, 4th West Virginia, Assaults on Vicksburg, Forlorn Hope, Francis Cockrell, Frank Blair, Graveyard Road, James Tuttle, John Pemberton, Joseph E. Johnston, Louis Hebert, Siege of Vicksburg, Stockade Redan, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, Vicksburg National Military Park, William T. Sherman
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