Jumat, 06 April 2018

Fire and Blood- Getting to Vicksburg

A Yankee flotilla encounters unforeseen adventures in its perilous attempt to find a back way to Vicksburg. During the winter and spring of 1863, Union General Ulysses S. Grant had tried every trick in the book to get his army across the Mississippi River to attack the Confederate fortress of Vicksburg. All had failed, and …

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