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“You can do a great deal in eight days”: Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten Turning Point (part two)
Part two of two With an escort of twenty cavalrymen, Ulysses S. Grant rode on the evening of May 3, 1863, into the newly captured town Grand Gulf, Mississippi. He passed the now-abandoned Confederate forts, Cobun and Wade, and made … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Navies, Western Theater
Tagged a-great-deal-in-eight-days, Baton Rouge, Brad Gottfried, Civil War turning points, David Porter, Grand Gulf, Hankerson's Ferry, Henry Halleck, Milliken's Bend, Nathaniel Banks, Parker Hills, Port Gibson, Port Hudson, Turning Points of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, Vicksburg Campaign
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“You can do a great deal in eight days”: Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten Turning Point (part one)
Part one of two Ulysses S. Grant had envisioned his arrival in Grand Gulf, Mississippi, under other circumstances. A week earlier, he had targeted the landing as the ideal spot to cross his army from the west bank of the … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Navies, Western Theater
Tagged a-great-deal-in-eight-days, Bruinsburg, Civil War turning points, Commissary Banks, Grand Gulf, Hankerson's Ferry, Henry Halleck, John McClernand, Milliken's Bend, Nathaniel Banks, Port Gibson, Port Hudson, Turning Point of the War, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg Campaign
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