Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30, 1863 Smith Timothy B.

The dawn of 1863 brought a new phase of the Union's Mississippi Valley operations against Vicksburg. Smith offers the first book-length examination of Ulysses S. For the first four months, Union attempts to reach high and dry ground east of the Mississippi River were 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.

Grant's 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