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In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted "Gibraltar of the Confederacy," a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general-and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause. In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants...
3) My Vicksburg
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During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.
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"This alphabet shows an overview of the Civil War from A to Z. Written in a two-tier format, a poem introduces the topic and detailed expository text provides addtional facts. Topics include Abraham Lincoln, Confederacy, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, and Union"--Provided by publisher.
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In this dramatic nonfiction account of the forty-seven-day siege of vicksburg and the battles leading up to it. In this story the author brings to life both sides of one of the most crucial campaigns of the Civil War-through the eyes of ordinary townspoeple, enlisted men, generals, and, above all three brave children who were there.
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Overview: It's a poignant irony in American history that 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...
15) Vicksburg, 1863
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While Gettysburg is better known, Vicksburg was the more important battle from a strategic point of view according to the author, Winston Groom. Here he details the struggle by the Union to gain control of the Mississippi River valley and to divide the Confederacy in two. We see Grant's determination, the feistiness of William Tecumseh Sherman , and the pride and intransigence of Confederate leaders from Jefferson Davis and General Joseph E. Johnston...
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"The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled...