Siege of Vicksburg trucker Margaret Milanick (Contributor)

Margaret Milanick (Contributor)

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Lincoln’s insistence on high-tech weaponry

Henry James

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Siege of Vicksburg trucker Margaret Milanick (Contributor)The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23 July 4, 1863 Timothy B. Smith In The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B. Smith offers the first comprehensive account of the siege that split the Confederacy in two. While the siege is often given a chapter or two in larger campaign studies and portrayed as a foregone