Vicksburg, 1863

Author

Winston Groom

Call Number

• 973.7344 G8766 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Physical Description

x, 482 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., plans, ports. ; 25 cm.

Contents

• War moves south. And so the ball was opened
• It was there that war found him
• U. S. "Unconditional Surrender" Grant
• I will do the best I can
• Anaconda squeezes
• Mississippians don't know, and refuse to learn, how to surrender
• Sometimes now we can get the papers
• Vicissitudes. Grant begins to stir
• Until it pleases God to take me--
• I reached Vicksburg, landed, assaulted, and failed
• If you can't smile, grin!
• When we can do no better we will blow them up
• I fear Grant won't do
• So thick a snake couldn't wriggle through it
• Corpse factory. Enemy will soon be upon us.
• Shut up as in a trap
• Corpse factory
• Martha says rats are hanging in the market for sale with the mule meat
• Father of waters again goes unvexed to the sea
• They'd all be dead anyhow.