Engineering Victory

In this illuminating volume, Justin S. Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant s midwesterners serving in the Army of the Tennessee engineered the Siege of Vicksburg, placing the event within the broader context of U.S. and European military history and nineteenth-century applied science in trench warfare and field fortifications. In doing so, he shatters the Lost Cause myth that Vicksburg s Confederate garrison surrendered due to lack of provisions. Instead of being starved out, Solonick explains, the Confederates were dug out."