Vicksburg - The South Loses the Mississippi

The great Siege of Vicksburg in June, 1863 was the beginning of the end for the South during the Civil War.  Winston Groom's, "Vicksburg: 1863", paints a panorama of siege by starvation and a population that was reduced to living caves and eating rats to survive. Their surrender ceded control of the Mississippi to the North and ensured Lincoln's 'Anaconda' strategy.

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Vicksburg 1863,  by Winston Groom (2011 - 512  pp)

Great storytelling of the battles leading up to Vicksburg including the final siege and fall, leaving the Union in control of the critically important Mississippi.