This presentation will be a treat for those interested in Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign. Attendees should be prepared to ask this noted scholar and expert on the campaign their burning questions about the many challenges, noted failures and how it resulted in the surrender of Confederates on July 4, 1863. Dr. Timothy B. Smith, a former NPS ranger at Shiloh, teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author of numerous books about Vicksburg including Early Struggles for Vicksburg: The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25–December 31, 1862; Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30, 1863; The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg: Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1-17, 1863; The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17–22, 1863; and The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23–July 4, 1863; all published by the University Press of Kansas.

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