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The Civil War Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Garry Adelman of the American Battlefield Trust described the motivations and events that occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg and the ...
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Iowans return to Vicksburg to honor Civil War dead

DES MOINES --- One hundred and fifty years ago today, scores of Iowans serving in the Union Army were dug in, laying siege to the Mississippi town of Vicksburg. Two assaults, one on May 19, 1863, and ...
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Book Review: Fred Grant at Vicksburg: A Boy’s Memoir at His Father’s Side During the American Civil War

Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...
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Receding tide : Vicksburg and Gettysburg : the campaigns that changed the Civil War / Edwin C. Bearss with J. Parker Hills

Foreword: American icon -- Introduction: Trinity and tide -- 1: Richmond and the river -- 2: Series of experiments -- 3: War has responsibilities -- 4: What will the country say? -- 5: To the railroad ...