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Bayou Battles for Vicksburg - (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B Smith (Hardcover)

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  • The dawn of 1863 brought a new phase of the Union's Mississippi Valley operations against Vicksburg.
  • Author(s): Timothy B Smith
  • 552 Pages
  • History, United States
  • Series Name: Modern War Studies

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"In Bayou Battles for Vicksburg, the third in sequence but fourth-published volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War, Tim Smith chronicles the third through seventh attempts by Ulysses S. Grant to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The accepted strategy up to this point [in the] war was aligned with the principles of the Swiss theorist Antoine-Henri Jomini, whose work was taught at West Point, where commanders on both sides of the conflict had been educated. But Jomini didn't have anything to say about creeks, rivers, and bayous in a subtropical swamp environment. Moreover, Jomini emphasized secure supply lines and a slow, steady, unified approach to a target such as Vicksburg. Grant threw out the book with a bold, and ultimately successful, plan to divide his forces to accomplish multiple goals and to confuse the enemy by cutting levies, flooding whole sections of watersheds, and bypassing strongholds by digging canals far around them, thus avoiding a direct approach. Once Grant finally reached the high, dry ground on the east side of the Mississippi River on May 1, the next phase began: the inland overland campaign began, and it continued for the next seventeen days. This will be covered in the next, and last, in the series of Smith's Vicksburg volumes"--



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The dawn of 1863 brought a new phase of the Union's Mississippi Valley operations against Vicksburg. For the first four months, Union attempts to reach high and dry ground east of the Mississippi River would be plagued by high water everywhere, and the resulting bayou and river expeditions would test everyone involved, including the defending Confederates.

In Bayou Battles for Vicksburg, the latest volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign of the US Civil War, Timothy B. Smith offers the first book-length examination of Ulysses S. Grant's winter waterborne attempts to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

The accepted strategy up to this point in the war was aligned with the principles of the Swiss theorist Antoine-Henri Jomini, whose work was taught at West Point, where commanders on both sides of the conflict had been educated. But Jomini emphasized secure supply lines and a slow, steady, unified approach to a target such as Vicksburg, and never had much to say about creeks, rivers, and bayous in a subtropical swamp environment. Grant threw out conventional wisdom with a bold, and ultimately successful, plan to avoid a direct approach and rather divide his forces to accomplish multiple goals and to confuse the enemy by cutting levies, flooding whole sections of watersheds, and bypassing strongholds by digging canals far around them.

Bayou Battles for Vicksburg details each of the Union attempts to reach high ground east of the Mississippi River and includes fresh research on the Yazoo Pass and Steele's Bayou expeditions, Grant's canal, and the Lake Providence effort. Smith weaves several simultaneous Union initiatives together into a chronological narrative that provides great detail on the Union's successful final attempt to get to good ground east of the Mississippi.



Review Quotes




"Smith's clear explanations of the complexities of geography, weather, and overall strategy shed important light on Ulysses Grant's thoughts, motivations, and actions in the first months of 1863."--Emerging Civil War

"Smith's descriptions of the militarily relevant topography of the massive Yazoo Delta and the expanse of levee-enclosed low ground opposite Vicksburg are excellent, and his detailed recounting of canal digging and inland waterway operations in those areas is the best of any collective discussion of those events. Smith's explanations of the difficulties and range of possible results involved in those operations along with why each effort failed are similarly insightful."--Civil War Books and Authors



"Bayou Battles for Vicksburg continues the exhaustive research and clear analysis that marks Timothy Smith's impressive catalog. This chronicle of battles against man and nature fittingly takes its place in Smith's masterful multivolume study of the campaign to conquer the Gibraltar of the Mississippi."--Jonathan M. Steplyk, author of Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat


Dimensions (Overall): 9.53 Inches (H) x 6.46 Inches (W) x 1.57 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 552
Series Title: Modern War Studies
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Format: Hardcover
Author: Timothy B Smith
Language: English
Street Date: November 12, 2023
TCIN: 89724170
UPC: 9780700635665
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-6224
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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