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The Vicksburg campaign usually refers to Grants operations against the city beginning in November/December 1862. This book takes a broader scope of the campaign, including operations on the Mississippi (not all of them against Vicksburg) before Grant. It also looks at the city itself, with a brief history including the locals sentiments on secession and the war. Over a hundred pages pass before the traditional start of the campaign with Grants failed overland push from Tennessee.The failed operations before Grants crossing of the Mississippi below Vicksburg are covered in less than a hundred pages. The marches and battles (Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, Big Black River Bridge) get over a hundred pages. The two failed assaults on Vicksburg get about forty pages while the rest of the siege gets about the same. I liked the broad scope of the book in helping to understand the big picture of the Vicksburg campaign and the battles are covered adequately. Ballard seems to hit all the points that he needs to, including the Pemberton-Johnston-Davis and McClernand-Grant squabbles. I also enjoyed the short epilogue covering what became of the principle commanders and touching on how Vicksburg became a National Military Park. Scholarly readers will be happy to find good Endnotes and Bibliography.The book does have some weaknesses. The maps are insufficient, as is too often the case with military histories. The siege of Vicksburg feels shortchanged so Im not surprised that Ballard recently expanded on the subject in Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege. I feel like we get inside Pembertons head better than Grants. Despite a hundred pages on the events leading up to the main operations against Vicksburg, the simultaneous Port Hudson campaign is mentioned only in passing. While I understand it is outside the main scope of the book, given how many other tangentially related topics are at least briefly touched upon this seems like an oversight. Ballards writing is also a problem; it is decently interesting, but he jumps around too much which makes some parts of the book confusing and others a little vague about when they occurred.Another shortcoming which is not Ballards fault, but which should be pointed out: while this book was written after Ballards biography of Pemberton, it was published before Compelled to Appear in Print: The Vicksburg Manuscript of General John C. Pemberton.I have heard Ballards book on Vicksburg declared as possibly the best single volume on the subject. It tries hard to earn that billing and is definite, although it falls short of being a definitive work on the subject. Still very much worth reading.
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