"In Bayou Battles for Vicksburg, the third in sequence but fourth-published volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War, Tim Smith chronicles the third through seventh attempts by Ulysses S. Grant to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Miss...

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1. Verfasser:	Smith, Timothy B. 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lawrence, Kansas University Press of Kansas 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Modern war studies
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1863 Vicksburg-Feldzug > 1862-1863 Grant, Ulysses S. / (Ulysses Simpson) / 1822-1885 / Military leadership Strategy / Tropical conditions / History / 19th century Vicksburg (Miss.) / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Campaigns Vicksburg (Miss.) / History / Siege, 1863 Grant, Ulysses S. / (Ulysses Simpson) / 1822-1885 Command of troops Military campaigns Mississippi / Vicksburg United States 1800-1899 History
Zusammenfassung:	"In Bayou Battles for Vicksburg, the third in sequence but fourth-published volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War, Tim Smith chronicles the third through seventh attempts by Ulysses S. Grant to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The accepted strategy up to this point [in the] war was aligned with the principles of the Swiss theorist Antoine-Henri Jomini, whose work was taught at West Point, where commanders on both sides of the conflict had been educated. But Jomini didn't have anything to say about creeks, rivers, and bayous in a subtropical swamp environment. Moreover, Jomini emphasized secure supply lines and a slow, steady, unified approach to a target such as Vicksburg. Grant threw out the book with a bold, and ultimately successful, plan to divide his forces to accomplish multiple goals and to confuse the enemy by cutting levies, flooding whole sections of watersheds, and bypassing strongholds by digging canals far around them, thus avoiding a direct approach. Once Grant finally reached the high, dry ground on the east side of the Mississippi River on May 1, the next phase began: the inland overland campaign began, and it continued for the next seventeen days. This will be covered in the next, and last, in the series of Smith's Vicksburg volumes"--
Beschreibung:	xxiii, 526 Seiten 3 Illustrationen, 20 Karten, 18 Porträts
ISBN:	9780700635665 0700635661