Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign: Volume 2

by Terrence J. Winschel

Overview

The study of the Civil War in the Western Theater is more popular now than ever before, and the center of that interest is the months-long Vicksburg Campaign, which is the subject of National Park Historian Terrence J. Winschel’s book Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol 2, now in paperback.

Following up on the popular success of his earlier book of the same name, Winschel offers ten new chapters of insights into what has been declared by many to have been the most decisive campaign of the Civil War. Designed to appeal to both general readers and serious students, Winschel’s essays cover a wide range of topics.

Winschel’s chapters include detailed coverage of military operations, naval engagements, leading personalities, and even an essay about a specific family (the Lords) caught up in the nightmarish 47-day siege that nearly cost them their lives.

Smoothly written and deeply researched, these fresh chapters offer balanced and comprehensive analysis written with the authority that only someone who has served as Vicksburg’s Chief Historian since 1978 can produce. Bolstered by photographs, illustrations, and numerous outstanding original maps, this second volume in the Triumph & Defeat series will stand as a lasting contribution to the study of the Civil War.

Author Terry Winschel, chief historian at Vicksburg National Military Park, weaves a professional lifetime of personal experience and scholarship into this remarkable study. His chapters cover every major aspect of what many consider to have been the decisive military achievement of the war—the capture of “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611212488
Publisher:	Savas Beatie
Publication date:	06/20/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Terrence J. Winschel is the Chief Historian of Vicksburg National Military Park and the author or editor of several books and dozens of articles on the Civil War.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

Foreword xv

Chapter 1 Beyond the Rubicon: The Union Army Secures Its Beachhead on Mississippi Soil 1

Chapter 2 Blitzkrieg: Grant Style 13

Chapter 3 The National Colors Are Restored O'er the Capitol 31

Chapter 4 John A. McClernand: Fighting Politician 49

Chapter 5 Companion to the Fishes: The Saga of the Gunboat Cincinnati 73

Chapter 6 The Lords of Vicksburg 93

Chapter 7 "I Am Too Late:" Joseph E. Johnston and the Army of Relief 115

Chapter 8 "No Longer A Point of Danger:" The Siege of Jackson 129

Chapter 9 Crucial to the Outcome: Vicksburg and the Trans-Mississippi Supply Line 141

Chapter 10 Stephen D. Lee and the Making of an American Shrine 159

Epilogue 176

Notes 189

Bibliography 205

Index 211