Champion Hill Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
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Full Title

Champion Hill Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Author(s)

Timothy B. Smith
Edition
ISBN

9781611210002, 9781932714197, 9781932714005
Publisher

Savas Beatie (ORIM)
Format

PDF and EPUB

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The Mississippi battle between Grant’s and Pemberton’s forces that sealed Vicksburg’s fate.   The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The fighting on May 16, 1863, took place just twenty miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Federal army attacked Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton’s hastily gathered Confederates.   The bloody fighting seesawed back and forth until superior Union leadership broke apart the Southern line, sending Pemberton’s army into headlong retreat. The victory on Mississippi’s wooded hills sealed the fate of both Vicksburg and her large field army, propelled Grant into the national spotlight, and earned him the command of the entire US armed forces.   Timothy Smith, a historian for the National Park Service, has written the definitive account of this long-overlooked battle. This book, winner of a nonfiction prize from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, is grounded upon years of primary research, rich in analysis and strategic and tactical action, and a compelling read.

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