The surgeon's battle : how medicine won the Vicksburg Campaign and changed the Civil War /

Between May 1 and May 22, 1863, Union soldiers marched nearly 200 miles through the hot, humid countryside to assault and capture the fortified city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Upon its arrival, the army laid siege to the city for a grueling forty-seven days. Disease and combat casualties threatened...

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Main Author: Privette, Lindsay Rae Smith (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025].
Series:Civil War America (Series)
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