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Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg

by James R. Arnold

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"Vicksburg is the key. . . . Let us get Vicksburg, and all that country is ours."--President Abraham Lincoln, 1862

In a brilliantly constructed and powerfully rendered new account, James R. Arnold offers a penetrating analysis of Grant's strategies and actions leading to the Union victory at Vicksburg. Approaching these epic events from a unique and well-rounded perspective, and based on careful research, Grant Wins the War is fascinating reading for all Civil War and military history buffs.

Acclaim for Grant Wins the War

"Nicely details the coordination of Union military and naval operations and the boldness and genius of General U. S. Grant that brought Union victory, and he offers an excellent discussion of the technology and tactics of siege warfare. . . . a good drums-and-bugle account of an important event."--Library Journal

"A particular strength of this work is its demonstration that modern weapons left no shortcuts to victory, and little room for command virtuosity."--Publishers Weekly

"Throughout, Arnold backs up his assessments with solid facts and sound reasoning, engagingly presented. He has produced a useful and enjoyable brief history of the Vicksburg campaign, helpful to scholars and general readers alike."--Journal of Military History

"Powerfully and persuasively argues that the Union victory at Vicksburg in 1863 was in fact the actual turning point of the Civil War."--Helena (Mont.) Independent Record

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Book details

Author
James R. Arnold
Imprint
Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Pages
400
Formats
Paperback, Hardcover
Subjects
History › United States › Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History › Military
Topics
American Civil War · Battle of Vicksburg · Ulysses S. Grant · Union military strategy · Civil War military history · naval operations · Mississippi River campaign
ISBN-13
9781620457009 (Paperback)9781620456729 (Hardcover)

About the author

JAMES R. ARNOLD is a military historian and the author of more than thirty books on military history and leadership. His recent books include Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq, The Moro War and Jeff Davis’s Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier.

Arnold’s Americans at War: Eyewitness Accounts won the 2018 Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award. He has also written more than forty library reference books for young adults on topics ranging from colonial America to the Civil War.

Arnold is the founder of Napoleon Books, a niche publishing venture devoted to Napoleonic studies.

James lives on a working farm near Lexington, Virginia, with his wife.

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