Grant also tried again to get directly at Vicksburg from the north, first by approaching the city by means of the Yazoo Pass, then by way of Steel Bayou. Both of these joint Army-Navy operations ...

Engineers in Union blue and Confederate gray played a prominent role in the Vicksburg campaigns of 1862-1863. Although their contributions have largely gone unnoticed in published works on the ...

Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...

Gettysburg is often cited as the most important battle of the Civil War, but historian Donald L. Miller argues it was Vicksburg that sealed the fate of the Confederacy. In “Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign ...

Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...

Strategic Isolation, Joint Dominance, and the Economic Decoupling of the Iranian Regime In the long annals of military history, great captains have always understood a central truth: wars are rarely ...