Pemberton: The General Who Lost Vicksburg - Paperback

by Michael B. Ballard (Author)

New in paperback, the first biography of the Confederate general branded as incompetent for surrendering the South's strategic river post to Grant

Front Jacket

A biography of the Confederate general who lost the Mississippi River's last strategic outpost to General Grant

Author Biography

Michael B. Ballard (1946-2016) was an archivist at Mississippi State University and is author of many books, including Civil War Mississippi: A Guide; A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy; and, with David Muench, Landscapes of Battle: The Civil War.