"Civil War Siege of Jackson, Mississippi" Topic

"Even after a grueling forty-seven-day siege at Vicksburg, Ulysses S. Grant could not rest on his laurels. Just fifty miles away in Jackson, Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston and the Army of Relief still posed a threat to Grants hard-won victory. General William Tecumseh Sherman countered by marching Union troops to Jackson. After a weeklong siege under a hot Mississippi sun, Johnstons army abandoned the city, leaving the fate of Jackson in the hands of Shermans troops. Historian Jim Woodrick recounts the Civil War devastation and rebirth of Mississippis capital."

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I think calling what happened at Jackson a siege is a stretch

It may be a stretch but that is what the battle was called by the participants. As much a siege as the "Siege of Petersburg" in Virginia, 1864-1865.

Jim (from Jackson, by the by)

P.S. Jim Woodrick is a friend but I haven't seen the book yet. I will be getting it however as he is a Civil War enthusiast and a fellow historian.

P.P.S. Terry Winschel is also a Civil War enthusiast and author and retired National Park Service historian from the Vicksburg National Military Park.