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Tag Archives: Siege of Vicksburg
Question of the Week: 6/27-7/3/22
It’s a classic question, but it’s worth revisiting this time of year… In your opinion, which is the more significant turning point? Gettysburg. Vicksburg. Both. Or neither.
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Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, Question of the Week, Siege of Vicksburg
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Book Review: Vicksburg Besieged
Vicksburg Besieged Edited by Steve E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear Southern Illinois Press, 2020, $29.50 hardback Reviewed by Sean M. Chick It is inevitable that as Ulysses S. Grant’s stock has risen over the decades, more books on Vicksburg … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Western Theater
Tagged Book Review, ECW Book Reviews, Siege of Vicksburg
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A Poet’s Perspective: Melville on Running the Batteries at Vicksburg
It was the spring of 1863, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was concocting a plan to seize the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. As President Abraham Lincoln had made clear, Vicksburg was key to achieving victory over the Confederates and ending … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Navies
Tagged herman melville, run the batteries, Siege of Vicksburg
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Arkansas’s Role in the Vicksburg Campaign (part one)
ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Carson Butler. Part one of two. The Mississippi River is one of the most defining features of the North American continent, and during the American Civil War, it proved to be vital in … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Sieges, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged 12th Arkansas Battaltion, Arkansans-at-Vicksburg, Arkansas, Big Black River, Carson Butler, Champion Hill, Franklin Gardner, John Pemberton, Magnolia Church, Martin Edwin Green, Port Gibson, Port Hudson, Siege of Vicksburg, Trans-Mississippi, Vicksburg Campaign
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Book Review: Storming Vicksburg
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863 By Earl J. Hess University of North Carolina Press, 2020, $40.00 hardback Reviewed by Sean Michael Chick In 2020 Earl J. Hess and Timothy B. Smith, two of the … Continue reading
BookChat with Steven Woodworth and Charles Grear, editors of Vicksburg Besieged
I have been spending a lot of time lately with the latest volume in Southern Illinois University Press’s “Civil War Campaigns in the West” Series, Vicksburg Besieged, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear (see info on the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Sieges, Western Theater
Tagged BookChat, Charles Grear, Chuck Grear, Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland, Civil War Campaigns in the West, Siege of Vicksburg, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, Steven Woodworth, Vicksburg Besieged, Vicksburg Campaign
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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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Space, “Western Theater” not the Final Frontier
(Editor’s Note: The ECW YouTube page will feature videos from Phill’s trip over the next few weeks, kicked off by this discussion, which is also available as an ECW Podcast.) Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a few battlefields … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Civil War Trails, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Photography, Preservation, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Alabama, Albert Sidney Johnston, Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, Confederacy, Emerging Civil War, Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park, Kentucky, Mississippi, National Park Service, Phillip S. Greenwalt, Shiloh National Military Park, Siege of Vicksburg, Tennessee, Ulysse S. Grant, Western theater
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William McLain: On the Subject of Surrendering
ECW welcomes guest author Dan Masters. By August 1864, William Mosby McLain of Co. B, 32nd Ohio Infantry had become an expert on the ins and outs of surrendering. Having taken part in two of the largest mass surrenders of … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Primary Sources
Tagged Battle of Atlanta, Battle of Harpers Ferry, John Mosby, Siege of Vicksburg, Surrender
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