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Your Price: $ 15.00
Item Number: BK626 |
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Circa: 1985 ISBN: 0-8094-4744-4
By Jerry Korn and the Editors of Time Life Books. Published by Time Life Books, Alexandria, Va., 1985. Hardcover with embossed gray leatherette cover with full color illustration of Union gunboats on the Mississippi River. Also has a U.S. and C.S. belt plate, stars, crossed cannons, swords and cannon balls with the title of the book printed in blue. The title is also printed in blue on the spine. Large 9 x 11 size, 175 pages, index, maps, profusely illustrated. Brand new condition.
The Cover: A Federal flotilla under Rear Admiral David Porter braves a storm of fire from Confederate batteries along the shore and atop the high bluffs at Vicksburg on the night of April 16, 1863. The transports and barges, lashed to the sides of Porter's gunboats for protection, carry troops and supplies downriver for Major General Ulysses S. Grant's campaign to assault Vicksburg from the south. |
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