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and a growing firestorm of unrest that would culminate on the fields of Gettysburg

was mourned as keenly in the press as the loss of 16 of her men that night

non-technical language for general readers

000 acres of park land

and in the process changed the entire course of history

Siege of Vicksburg cup and a growing firestorm ofThe Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23 July 4, 1863 Timothy B. Smith In The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B. Smith offers the first comprehensive account of the siege that split the Confederacy in two. While the siege is often given a chapter or two in larger campaign studies and portrayed as a foregone