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Rocky Mountain Civil War Round Table 2013 Study Group The Vicksburg Campaign Thanks to Gary Mitchell for putting this material together. February 21 Campaign Overview – Ian Duncanson (a) Why Vicksburg was important to the north and to the south. (b) Union thoughts on taking Vicksburg, 1861 to July, 1862 – naval bombardment; the Williams Canal. (c) Confederate defensive plans at Vicksburg, 1861 to July, 1862. March 21 First Efforts – Ray Polster (a) Fall, 1862 – Halleck tells Grant to move downriver to Vicksburg (b) Command structure of Confederate forces (c) Grant’s initial plan to attack Vicksburg using two prongs (1) One moving south via the Mississippi Railroad into the state (2) Another with Sherman moving down the Mississippi River (d) Failures of both forces and why, winter 1862 (1) Holly Springs (2) Chickasaw Bayou April 18 Naval Operations, January-March 1863 – Open (a) Union naval forces on the Mississippi Rover, 1863New Orleans and up the Mississippi River. (b) Union operations – January to March1863. (1) Arkansas post. (2) Grant’s bayou operations. (i) Lake Providence operations (ii) Yazoo Pass operation (iii) Steele’s bayou operation (iv) Duckport canal May 16 Spring 1863, Union Plans – Frank Atwood (a) Down the west bank of the Mississippi River (1) Union troops create roads (2) Pemberton responds (b) Naval ships move south past Vicksburg (c) Sherman attacks at Snyder’s Bluff, Mississippi (d) Grierson’s raid (e) Grant lands troops at Bruinsburg June 20 and July 18 Grant's Overland Campaigns, April 29-May 18 – Jim Roos and Don Hallstrom. This section covers six battles and each will be divided between the two meetings as importance dictates. (a) Port Gibson (b) Grand Gulf (c) Raymond (d) Jackson (e) Champion Hill (f) Big Black River Bridge August 15 (a) (b) (c) (d) Grant's Arrival at Vicksburg, Siege, Surrender of the Town – Gary Mitchell Confederate defensive positions Assault on May 19 Assault on May 22 Siege (1) Union forces available (2) Confederate defensive forces (3) Sappers’ work, May and June (4) Third Louisiana redan blast and Battle, June 25 (5) Second mine explosion, July 1 (e) Surrender of Vicksburg (1) Terms of surrender (2) Confederate forces surrendered and what happened to them (3) After effects of the Union victory (i) Port Hudson falls (ii) Confederacy is split and effects September 19 -- Wrap-up and Planning Session and Date Selection of Trip This may be done earlier if the previous sessions go faster than expected. Study Group Contact List Frank Atwood Linda Lee Babcock Ian Duncanson Ned Grauel Don Hallstrom Paul Jeffrey Mike Lang Luke Lemke Tony Lux Gary Mitchell Hal Moulton Jim Powers Jim Roos Gary Smith Dave Townsend Chuck Wheeler [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 720-260-1493 303-968-7010 303-694-6369 303-350-0700 720-269-4511 720-840-1416 970-531-6341 303-683-3023 720-635-5370 303-905-4162 303-521-8363 303-973-0549 Bibliography War on the Mississippi: Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign (Time-Life Civil War series) – Jerry Korn Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer’s View of the Civil War – Warren E. Grabau The Campaign for Vicksburg (very expensive three-volume set): Volume I, Vicksburg Is the Key; Volume II, Grant Strikes a Fatal Blow; Volume III, Unvexed on the Sea – Edwin C. Bearss Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) – William L. Shea and Terrence J. Winshel Vicksburg: Fall of the Confederate Gibraltar – Terrence J. Winchel The Final Fortress: The Campaign for Vicksburg 1862-1863 – Samuel Carter III Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi – Michael B .Ballard The Vicksburg Campaign, April 1862-July 1863 – David Martin and Albert A. Nofi The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 – Shelby Foote Vicksburg 1863: Grant Clears the Mississippi – Alan Hankinson Struggle for Vicksburg: The Battles and Siege That Decided the Civil War – Robert H. Fowler, editor Seven Story Mountain: The Union Campaign at Vicksburg – Philip M. Thienel Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign (U. S. Army War College Guides to the Civil War) – Leonard Fullenkamp, Jay Luvaas and Stephen Bowman Record of the Organizations Engaged in the Campaign, Siege, and Defense of Vicksburg (1901) – John S. Kountz The Web of Victory: Grant at Vicksburg by Earl Schenck Miers Books of Interest Regarding Vicksburg Holly Springs, Van Dorn, the CSS Alabama, and the Raid That Saved Vicksburg – Brandon H. Beck Westerners in Gray, The Men and Missions of the Elite Fifth Missouri Infantry Regiment – Philip T. Tucker The South’s Finest, The First Missouri Confederate Brigade from Pea Ridge to Vicksburg – Philip T. Tucker The Dearest and the Best, the Biography of Private Daniel McKnight, Co. C, Fifth Missouri Confederate Infantry – Gary D. Truman Champion Hill, Decisive Battle for Vicksburg – Timothy B. Smith The Forgotten Stonewall of the West, Major General John Stevens Bowen – Philip T. Tucker The Confederacy’s Fighting Chaplain, Father John B. Bannon – Philip T. Tucker Memoirs, Historical and Personal, Including the Campaigns of the First Missouri, Missouri Confederate Brigade – Ephraim McDowell Anderson History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades, 1861-1865: and, from Wakarusa to Appomattox, A Military Anagraph – R. S. Bevier The Siege of Vicksburg and Other Western Battles, 1861-1865 – Robert O’Neill