Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg: The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War

by J. Parker Hills and Edwin C. Bearss

Book Overview

It's a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South's effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege, Ulysses Grant's Union army finally took Vicksburg and the Confederate west. On the very same day, Robert E. Lee was in Pennsylvania, parrying the threat to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426205104
• ISBN13: 9781426205101
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"