Champion Hill

The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign The May 16, 1863, fighting took place just 20 miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen Ulysses S Grant s Federal army attacked Gen John C Pemberton s hastily gathered Confederates The bloody fighting seesawed back and forth until superior Union leadership broke apart the Southern line, sending Pemberton s army into headlong retreat The victory on Mississippi s wooded hills sealed the fate of both Vicksburg and her large field army, propelled Grant into the national spotlight, and earned him the command of the entire U.S armed forces.Timothy Smith, who holds a Ph.D from Mississippi State and works as a historian for the National Park Service, has written the definitive account of this long overlooked battle His vivid prose is grounded upon years of primary research and is rich in analysis, strategic and tactical action, and character development Champion Hill will become a classic Civil War battle study.REVIEWS WINNER, NON FICTION, 2005, MISSISSIPPI INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS Read Champion Hill By Timothy B. Smith – kino-fada.fr Everything you wanted to know about Champion Hill but were afraid to ask This is an exhaustive and fair account although the Pemberton bashing can get tiresome with lots of detail Prose is dry but clear and the maps are a blessing although a bit uneven and redundant in places Has a refreshing take on McClernand that is also in evidence in Ballard s account One quibble though Smith takes Pemberton to task for being detached during the battle, but arguably Grant was muchdetached, a Everything you wanted to know about Champion Hill but were afraid to ask This is an exhaustive and fair account although the Pemberton bashing can get tiresome with lots of detail Prose is dry but clear and the maps are a blessing although a bit uneven and redundant in places Has a refreshing take on McClernand that is also in evidence in Ballard s account One...Has to be one of least covered battles of the entire war, from a historical coverage Fascinating battle, given the number of swings back and forth between the counter attacks Interesting to know the Union could have trapped and crushed the entire Confederate army under Pendleton, had ...Once General Grant had defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Champion Hill, his further victory at Vicksburg was assured, all but sealing the South s fate I m not a big fan of reading about military battle movements, but this book is extremely r...Tim Smith s research and writing paint an important picture of the completely neglected and overshadowed Battle of Champion Hill.I had the privilege of touring some of the battlefield in 2012 and was inspired to read Sm...Very detailed book with lots of information on all the leaders involved in the battle It was interesting but could have been a tad shorter.I read over this book for a military staff ride of the Vicksburg campaign This book is a very detailed account of the battle of Champion Hill.

• English
• 25 April 2017
Timothy B. Smith
• Paperback
• 502 pages
• 1932714197
• Timothy B. Smith
• Champion Hill