VICKSBURG:
  The Battle that Won the Civil War

Written by Mary Ann Fraser
Published by Henry Holt and Company
includes Glossary, Sources Notes, Bibliography and Index
ISBN 0-8050-6106-1  $14.95

"Vicksburg is the key. The War can never be brought to a close until the key is in our pocket."          Abraham Lincoln, November 1861

SYNOPSIS
High on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi, the city of Vicksburg guarded the river that was the lifeblood of the Confederacy. To win the Civil War, the Union would have to take the city. But protected by its high cliffs and its powerful cannon, it proudly resisted all attacks. Major General Ulysses S. Grant was the one Union leader up to the challenge of taking the city.

In Vicksburg , award-winning author Mary Ann Fraser uses more than thirty primary source quotations, forty pictures drawn at the time, and five maps to take us inside the camps of the Blue and Gray. Through the words of generals and soldiers, men and women, children and adults, we witness the action in the crucial battle that many historians think decided the Civil War.

REVIEWS
"A superb introduction to the siege of and battles for Vicksburg. The action and planning are carefully presented in clear easy-to-understand terms. Fraser not only recounts details of the campaign, but also does an excellent job of introducing readers to the people behind the events."
School Library Journal

"A good addition to Civil War collection, this attractive little book explains the importance of Vicksburg in controlling the Mississippi, the difficulties faced by the Union army in taking it, the hardships of those within the besieged city, and the significance of its surrender in 1863. Bringing the history to life, quotations from diaries, memoirs, and other sources give voices to the participants.....A fine introduction to a pivotal Civil War battle."
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