Union Assaults at Vicksburg hats Abraham among the Yankees invites

Abraham among the Yankees invites readers to take an East Coast journey with a thirty-nine-year-old Lincoln during election season in 1848 to see how Massachusetts audiences responded to the humorous

In layman's terms Don also takes a look at the forces of nature he believes are behind these unexplained occurrences

while assessing the condition of his victorious but heavily damaged army

from alligators to white-tailed deer

Union Assaults at Vicksburg hats Abraham among the Yankees invitesThe Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 1722, 1863 Timothy B. Smith It was the third week of May 1863, and after seven months and six attempts, Ulysses S. Grant was finally at the doorstep of Vicksburg. What followed was a series of attacks and maneuvers against the last major section of the Mississippi River controlled by the Confederacyand one of the most important operations of the Civil War. Grant intended to end the campaign