Good evening everyone,
Brand new to the forums, had a general question for everyone that I wasn't able to find a quick answer to on google.
I had always learned in school that one of the reasons Vicksburg was so significant was that it was the last bastion on the Mississippi and its collapse on July 4th now put the Mississippi completely under Union control. However, when reading Catton, he talked about Port Hudson and how that was actually the last outpost. So do the school textbooks have it wrong? Was Port Hudson technically the last stronghold, but I guess once Vicksburg fell, Port Hudson a foregone conclusion?
Mike
Brand new to the forums, had a general question for everyone that I wasn't able to find a quick answer to on google.
I had always learned in school that one of the reasons Vicksburg was so significant was that it was the last bastion on the Mississippi and its collapse on July 4th now put the Mississippi completely under Union control. However, when reading Catton, he talked about Port Hudson and how that was actually the last outpost. So do the school textbooks have it wrong? Was Port Hudson technically the last stronghold, but I guess once Vicksburg fell, Port Hudson a foregone conclusion?
Mike