Receding tide Vicksburg and Gettysburg: the campaigns that changed the Civil War
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- ISBN: 9781426205606 (electronic bk)
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : National Geographic, 2010. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 14975 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Subject: | Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Vicksburg (Miss.) History Siege, 1863 Nonfiction History |
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Receding Tide : Vicksburg and Gettysburg: the Campaigns That Changed the Civil War
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Receding Tide : Vicksburg and Gettysburg: the Campaigns That Changed the Civil War
On Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South's effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege, Ulysses Grant's Union army finally took Vicksburg and the Confederate west. On the very same day, Robert E. Lee was in Pennsylvania, parrying the threat to Vicksburg with a daring push north to Gettysburg. For two days the battle had raged; on the next, July 4, 1863, Pickett's Charge was thrown back, a magnificently brave but fruitless assault, and the fate of the Confederacy was sealed, though nearly two more years of bitter fighting remained until the war came to an end. In Receding Tide, Edwin Cole Bearss draws from his popular Civil War battlefield tours to chronicle these two widely separated but simultaneous clashes and their dramatic conclusion. As the recognized expert on both Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Bearss tells the fascinating story of this single momentous day in our country's history, offering his readers narratives, maps, illustrations, characteristic wit, dramatic new insights and unerringly intimate knowledge of terrain, tactics, and the colorful personalities of America's citizen soldiers, Northern and Southern alike.