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Series
Civil War Western Theater Tetralogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The latest installment in the series that began with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. Summer, 1863: the Federal triumph at Vicksburg has secured complete control of the vital Mississippi River from the Confederacy. Under the now-proven leadership of Ulysses Grant, the victorious Federal army moves eastward, intent on the capture of the rail hub of Chattanooga, with the eventual goal of a march on Atlanta. But the Confederate forces are not...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
2014 Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 562 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a first installment in a trilogy inspired by the Siege of Vicksburg that follows Ulysses S. Grant's successful crossing of the Mississippi in May 1863 and his reluctant decision to surround Confederate soldiers and citizens in a ring of Federal entrenchments to starve them into surrendering.