Book Spotlight: Vicksburg

 Seven Things You Should Know

Everyone knows Gettysburg.

Almost nobody really knows Vicksburg — and that gap is worth closing, because a strong case can be made that Vicksburg, not Gettysburg, was the war's most consequential battle. It took a year of failed campaigns, a gamble that worried even Lincoln, a fleet running past enemy guns in the dark, and forty-seven days of a city living underground — but when Vicksburg finally fell, it split the Confederacy in two and handed Lincoln the general who would go on to end the war.

Seven Things You Should Know About the Battle of Vicksburg is out now — short, surprising, and worth the forty-five minutes.