Blood on the bayou : Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi /
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Author / Creator: | Frazier, Donald S. (Donald Shaw), 1965- author. |
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Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | Buffalo Gap, Texas : State House Press, [2015] ©2015 |
Description: | xii, 472 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10144828 |
ISBN: | 9781933337630 193333763X 9781933337623 1933337621 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-452) and index. |
Summary: | "Blood on the Bayou covers the final, decisive campaigns for control of the Mississippi River Valley from May to July 1863, but it argues that events west of the Mississippi were as important as those occurring on the eastern shore. Culminating in the sieges of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Union efforts also included a determination to liberate-and arm-as many slaves in the region as they could. The Confederates, desperate to avoid the calamity of losing both their forts and what they considered their chattel property, fought back with determination and imagination hoping to somehow affect the outcome of these campaigns despite long odds."-- |
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