A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg

A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg
ISBN-10
0345527399
ISBN-13
9780345527394
Category
Fiction
Pages
574
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Author
Jeff Shaara

Description

Presents a first installment in a trilogy inspired by the Siege of Vicksburg that follows Ulysses S. Grant's successful crossing of the Mississippi in May 1863 and his reluctant decision to surround Confederate soldiers and citizens in a ring of Federal entrenchments to starve them into surrendering.

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