Table of Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface
How to Use This Book
Introduction
Part I: The Vicksburg Campaign
The Strategic Situation
1. Fortress Vicksburg
2. Grant Takes Command
3. “A Perfect Concert of Action”
4. Operations West of the River
5. Operations along Yazoo Pass and Fort Pemberton
6. Running the Batteries
7. Grierson’s Raid
8. Operations below Vicksburg
9. Battle of Port Gibson
10. Evolution of Operational Plan
11. Grant’s Indirect Approach
12. The Battle of Champion Hill
13. Generals at Odds
14. The Siege
15. The Fall of Vicksburg
Part II: Driving Tour of the Vicksburg Campaign
Phase 1: Winter 1862-63 Operations
-Stop 1, Chickasaw Bayou
-Stop 2, Grant’s Canal
Phase 2: Isolating Vicksburg
-Stop 1, Running the Batteries/Deception Operations
Operational Sites:
-Stop 1, Steele’s Bayou, Black Bayou, Deer Creek
-Stop 2, Deer Creek
-Stop 3, Fort Pemberton
Phase 3: The Union Army Crosses into Mississippi
-Stop 1, Grand Gulf
-Stop 2, Bruinsburg/Point Lookout
-Stop 3, Shaifer House
-Stop 4, Magnolia Church
-Stop 5, Battle of Raymond
-Stop 6, Champion Hill
-Stop 7, The South Wing of the Champion Hill Battle
-Stop 8, Engagement at the Big Black River Bridge
Part III: Driving Tour of the Vicksburg Siege Lines
-Stop 1, The Confederate Defenses—The Great Redoubt
-Stop 2, Secon Texas Lunette
-Stop 3, Railroad Redoubt
-Stop 4A, Fort Garrott
-Stop 4B, Hovey’s Approach
-Stop 5, Grant’s Problems with McClernand
-Stop 6, Artillery in Union Siege Operations
-Stop 7, Third Louisiana Redan
-Stop 8A, Attack on the Stockade Redan
-Stop 8B, Defense of the Stockade Redan
-Stop 9, General Grant in Command
-Stop 10, Sherman’s Corps in the Siege
-Stop 11A, Naval Operations during the Siege
-Stop 11B, Naval Operations (continued): The USS Cairo
-Stop 12, Confederate Defenses on the Mississippi River
-Stop 13, The Confederate Surrender
Optional Site, South Fort
Appendix: Order of Battle, United States Army and Confederate States Army, May 18-July 4, 1863
Bibliography
Index
