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The Siege of Vicksburg, 1863. The Death Knell Moment of the Rebellion. The South Reduced to Eating Rats.

35 min • 14 mars 2025

With the fall of Vicksburg, the Union seized the entire length of the Mississippi River, cleaving the Confederacy in half. The South’s western states... Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas... were now isolated, their soldiers and resources cut off from the Eastern war effort. What had once been a united rebellion was now a fractured resistance, fighting a war it could no longer sustain.

Vicksburg. May 19 - July 4, 1863.
Union Forces: 75,000 Soldiers.
Confederate Forces: 30,000 Soldiers.

Additional Reading and Episode Research:

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War, A Narrative.
McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom.
Newman, Ralph. The Civil War: An American Iliad.
Donald, David. The Civil War and Reconstruction.

Other Episodes on the Civil War:

The Battle of Gettysburg.
The Siege of Fort Fisher.
The Battle of Antietam.

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