02478nam 2200565 a 450 991081235020332120200520144314.00-8173-8132-5(CKB)1000000000483483(EBL)438173(OCoLC)209097093(SSID)ssj0000245401(PQKBManifestationID)11210443(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245401(PQKBWorkID)10175857(PQKB)11312891(MdBmJHUP)muse8677(Au-PeEL)EBL438173(CaPaEBR)ebr10218371(MiAaPQ)EBC438173(EXLCZ)99100000000048348320060224d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSherman's Mississippi campaign /Buck T. FosterTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20061 online resource (231 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-5827-7 0-8173-1519-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-209) and index.Sherman's transformation -- The plan -- "We whipped him handsomely" -- "A miss is as good as a mile" -- Meridian falls -- "One of the most pestiferous nests-- in all the limits of Dixie" -- An opportunity lost -- "Meridian-- no longer exists".The rehearsal for the March to the Sea. With the fall of Vicksburg to Union forces in mid-1863, the Federals began work to extend and consolidate their hold on the lower Mississippi Valley. As a part of this plan, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman set out from Vicksburg on February 3, 1864, with an army of some 25,000 infantry and a battalion of cavalry. They expected to be joined by another Union force moving south from Memphis and supported themselves off the land as they traveled due east across Mississippi. SheStrategyCase studiesMississippiHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CampaignsMeridian (Miss.)History, Military19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CampaignsStrategy976.2/05Foster Buckley Thomas1706609MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812350203321Sherman's Mississippi campaign4094169UNINA