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Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg
166 pp.
| Farrar/Kroupa |
May, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-374-31255-8$21.95
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4-6
Three children--a girl from a prominent Vicksburg family, the son of a minister, and Ulysses S. Grant's son--share, through edited first-person accounts, their experiences over the eighteen-month Battle of Vicksburg. That Fred Grant would be permitted (even encouraged) to accompany his father on such a dangerous campaign shows modern readers a reality much different from their own. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
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May, 2009