Título: Bayou Battles for Vicksburg
Autor: Timothy B. Smith
Sinopse: The dawn of 1863 brought a new phase of the Unions Mississippi Valley operations against Vicksburg. For the first four months, Union attempts to reach high and dry ground east of the Mississippi River would be plagued by high water everywhere, and the resulting bayou and river expeditions would test everyone involved, including the defending Confederates. In Bayou Battles for Vicksburg, the latest volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign of the US Civil War, Timothy B. Smith offers the first book-length examination of Ulysses S. Grants winter waterborne attempts to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The accepted strategy up to this point in the war was aligned with the principles of the Swiss theorist Antoine-Henri Jomini, whose work was taught at West Point, where commanders on both sides of the conflict had been educated. But Jomini emphasized secure supply lines and a slow, steady, unified approach to a target such as Vicksburg, and never had much to say about creeks, rivers, and bayous in a subtropical swamp environment. Grant threw out conventional wisdom with a bold, and ultimately successful, plan to avoid a direct approach and rather divide his forces to accomplish multiple goals and to confuse the enemy by cutting levies, flooding whole sections of watersheds, and bypassing strongholds by digging canals far around them. Bayou Battles for Vicksburg details each of the Union attempts to reach high ground east of the Mississippi River and includes fresh research on the Yazoo Pass and Steeles Bayou expeditions, Grants canal, and the Lake Providence effort. Smith weaves several simultaneous Union initiatives together into a chronological narrative that provides great detail on the Unions successful final attempt to get to good ground east of the Mississippi.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Bayou Battles for Vicksburg”, de Timothy B. Smith, publicado pela editora University Press of Kansas, em 2023 e com 552 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: University Press of Kansas
Páginas: 552
Ano: 2023
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0700635661
ISBN13: 9780700635665
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Os livros da editora University Press of Kansas propõem um mergulho em narrativas densas que exploram momentos cruciais da história política, militar e social dos Estados Unidos e do mundo. A leitura costuma ser detalhada e fundamentada em fontes originais ou análises críticas, com foco em temas como direitos constitucionais, conflitos armados, políticas públicas urbanas e biografias históricas. O ritmo varia entre relatos minuciosos de batalhas e estudos jurídicos ou sociais que demandam atenção ao desenvolvimento das ideias e seus desdobramentos ao longo do tempo. O catálogo revela obras que combinam rigor acadêmico com uma narrativa que busca clareza e profundidade, contemplando tanto eventos do século XX quanto questões contemporâneas.
