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- Aug 25, 2012
The newest issue of Strategy & Tactics magazine has Vicksburg Joint Operation in the American Civil War as the lead article
their May/June 2021 issue. I read the article by Joseph Miranda and it gave me some food for thought. Sadly the article is a bit short to go in to great detail on the subject. One question I have after reading the article is that Joseph E. Johnston wanted Pemberton to abandon Vicksburg and join forces with him. The combined armies would allow Johnston to have sufficient forces to maneuver and fight a decisive battle. I am not sure this would have occurred. Johnston was a maneuver and maintain a viable army kind of stragitic thinker and not so much a risk it all on a deceive battle kind of general. Keeping an army in being in the west while the war was won in the east does makes some stragitic sense. If Johnston could have pulled off a decisive victory it could have been a game changer but having his army decisively defeated would have been a disaster for the Confederacy.
their May/June 2021 issue. I read the article by Joseph Miranda and it gave me some food for thought. Sadly the article is a bit short to go in to great detail on the subject. One question I have after reading the article is that Joseph E. Johnston wanted Pemberton to abandon Vicksburg and join forces with him. The combined armies would allow Johnston to have sufficient forces to maneuver and fight a decisive battle. I am not sure this would have occurred. Johnston was a maneuver and maintain a viable army kind of stragitic thinker and not so much a risk it all on a deceive battle kind of general. Keeping an army in being in the west while the war was won in the east does makes some stragitic sense. If Johnston could have pulled off a decisive victory it could have been a game changer but having his army decisively defeated would have been a disaster for the Confederacy.