Vicksburg and the Opening of the Mississippi River, 1862-63 (Classic Reprint)

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  • Author : National Park Service
  • Release Date : 2017-10-22
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 78
  • ISBN 13 : 9780282903961
  • File Size : 19,19 MB
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Book Description: Excerpt from Vicksburg and the Opening of the Mississippi River, 1862-63 These batteries were passed for the first time on June 28, when two sloops of war and six gunboats fought their way upriver. On that day, in an attempt to reduce the city by naval attack, Farragut blasted Vicksburg and its defenses with broadsides from his ships and a devastating fire from Cmdr. David D. Porter's mortar schooners. The attempt failed, mak ing it clear that a powerful land force would be required to capture Fortress Vicksburg. Only infantry had accompanied the expedition, and they were put to work with pick and shovel to dig a cutoff, southwest of the city, which might permit river traffic to bypass the Vicksburg guns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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