Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg- The Campaigns That

Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg- The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War
- Civil War
- Union Army
- Confederacy
- American History
- 19th Century
Itâ€™s a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the Southâ€™s effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege, Ulysses Grantâ€™s Union army finally took Vicksburg and the Confederate west.

On the very same day, Robert E. Lee was in Pennsylvania, parrying the threat to Vicksburg with a daring push north to Gettysburg. For two days the battle had raged; on the next, July 4, 1863, Pickettâ€™s Charge was thrown back, a magnificently brave but fruitless assault, and the fate of the Confederacy was sealed, though nearly two more years of bitter fighting remained until the war came to an end.

In Receding Tide, Edwin Cole Bearss draws from his popular Civil War battlefield tours to chronicle these two widely separated but simultaneous clashes and their dramatic conclusion. As the recognized expert on both Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Bearss tells the fascinating story of this single momentous day in our countryâ€™s history, offering his readers narratives, maps, illustrations, characteristic wit, dramatic new insights and unerringly intimate knowledge of terrain, tactics, and the colorful personalities of Americaâ€™s citizen soldiers, Northern and Southern alike.
Country USA
Brand National Geographic
Manufacturer National Geographic
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2010-05-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781426205101

Country	USA
Brand	National Geographic
Manufacturer	National Geographic
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2010-05-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781426205101

Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg- The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War

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