Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi

The Journal of Southern History | November 1, 2006| | Copyright

Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. By Michael B. Ballard. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 490. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2893-9.)

An oddity of Civil War military history is that one of the campaigns deemed to be among the most important has until recently received comparatively little attention. To be sure, the Vicksburg campaign has been well served by a number of able chroniclers, most notably Edwin C. Bearss's detailed three-volume history of the military operations, but single-volume scholarly treatments ...

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