Grant's transportation of 17,000 Union troops across the Mississippi at Hard Times, La. was the largest amphibious transport of troops in the history of warfare until the transport of troops from England to Normandy at Dday.

Thanks for the videos. My great grandfather was shot in the jaw at Shiloh, basically left for dead until the battle had ceased. Sounds like they were collecting the dead or burying them right there, and someone realized he was alive. He was sent to various hospitals and re-enlisted with the Indiana 100th, one of 3 units nicknamed the Persimmon Regiment. He was at Vicksburg, all along Sherman’s March to the Sea, and in the grand review in Washington DC. He was 16 years old when wounded at Shiloh; lived into his 70’s.

The Fourth of July was not celebrated in Vicksburg again until the early 1970's. Passions ran deep back then.

This is so cool. My great great grandfather Nathan Long was at Vicksburg with the 8th Iowa . Infact he went from Shiloh to Spanish fort. He even re-enlisted in 64 when he didn't have to.

Chancellorsville 160 was awesome. Stoked to watch Vicksburg and then Gettysburg

In American civics the teacher read a letter from besieged writer. We all guessed it was from the fire bombing of Germany. It was from Vicksburg. 8th grade in public schools. You won’t hear that history today in a public school.

So fascinating to see for my first time the actual landscape around vicksburg. You can read about in the books but seeing the landscape is something else indeed. Great video.

My great-grandfather Albert Conner and his twin served in the 26th IND Infantry, Company F and they fought in the Battles of Shiloh, Fayetteville, Vicksburg and Spanish Fort

Vicksburg area native here

I’ve stood on that very hill and seen the view. It’s amazing. It’s also difficult to understand how little the confederacy was so concerned with New Orleans Port Hudson and Vicksburg in terms of defending the South. Their fall in addition to many other factors was key to the victory. Take a trip down to Port Gibson and a little town called Rodney for some really fascinating areas leading up to the siege at Vicksburg. Great job. I love the series!

I went to Vicksburg last week and it made so much more sense seeing in person.

The campaigns fo Vicksburg is very interesting!

Very Cool. I have visited Vicksburg many times. Family members were drafted and fought there. Thanks!

Yay! Gary is back!!

I had 2 great uncles (maybe great great uncles on the Union side) serve in the siege of Vicksburg. Thanks for this Video!

I’ve visited Vicksburg three times in the last few months. It’s very interesting to me because my 3rd great-grand uncles fought there with the 37th Alabama Infantry. It makes you pause and reflect on what these men went through and the hardships they endured.

Vicksburg is amazing. 20 plus years ago we visited by accident and stayed three days. We heard the story of the newspaper printed on wallpaper. Years later, my daughter went to Truman University, in Missouri, and there in the small museum was a piece of the wall paper with the newsprint on the back. Small world experience.

Long long time member...... A suggestion if I may... A 360 video panorama with N , E, S, W.......at each stop so the viewer can better orient himself. It is clear that the view is north up the rivers, but a quick scan to the viewers right, then south ....360 degrees would be of big value with screen identification of the direction. I have even seen split screens .....one with a map which has an arrow that turn as the camera turns on the other screen. Thanks for these vids.

great to see the new location at Vicksburg

I am really looking forward to this series!

Great video! As the G-G-Grandson of Hosea Rood who fought there I am thankful for your detailed and accurate explaination. I have read his personal journals many, many times. Keep up the good work ❤

Gary , Chris and Kris, the Mississippi River. Was the key of shipping goods , troops and commerce to the Gulf. And still happens today.😊 Would be interested in the battle at Columbus KY. Where the south ran chains across the river to stop passage. You men do great work. Always love your presentations! 💯👍 Thank you for sharing!

So great to see yet another amazing video from the greats! Loved the Chancellorsville series as well. Really appreciate all you folks do for us civil war addicts. Perfect mix of visuals and commentary. Bravo!

Glad to see you are at Vicksburg...

My 2x GGrandfather was on the line 100' from where they shot this video. 6th Miss Co. F!

While I had five family members in Co G, 56th GA INF at Vicksburg, I've never been there or had the ability to wrap my mind around the battle like I have Gettysburg where I have no familial ties. So strange.

Thank you. Excellent.

Thank you!

Looks like you guys got a camera upgrade! Very nice picture. I also appreciate the humor at the beginning.

amazing!

Excellent presentation -- best on the internet

We went to Vicksburg in 2018. Love this video and am looking forward to the upcoming episodes!

Excellent video guys!!

Thank you for doing this series. I look forward to seeing all the videos.

A fantastic presentation of the USS Cairo. I've visited it twice. I wish the NPS would promote your YT videos as a personal guide.

It is amazing how such brutal fights were fought in such scenically beautiful places….one of life’s oxymorons!

Fantastic video. You can read all the books about this campaign but until you see things for your own eyes, you really can't appreciate the magnitude of what took place. I find Vicksburg to be the most fascinating aspect of the war.

Thanks guys - looking for to the rest of the videos.

Thank you for the awesome, informative videos!

This is fantastic

What really made Vicksburg and the Mississippi River important was the song "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain. Nothing else, just that.

Good to see you back in the Western Theater. Vicksburg > Gettysburg.

I luv these videos of all the epic USCW battles. Thank you for providing this content @american battlefieldtrust

I can’t wait for a 160 here in Chattanooga and nearby Chickamauga

My great great grandfather was at Vicksburg. He was from Wisconsin.

Mother Nature has no mercy. Picked up her river and found a nicer spot to flow.

If it hasn't been said already, the "a" in Yazoo is the same "a" as "cat". First syllable emphasis if you're a local.

Thanks for insight into Vicksburg and the course of the Mississippi , I need to study more of the western and trans mississippi campaigns 👍

Probably, just the sheer wideness of it at most points, meant that most competent steamship navigators could get through with supplies, resources, and currencies, the things the South had to have to survive. Losing New Orleans though was critical.

I used to have confederate notes from a Vicksburg bank that were printed on wallpaper.

Thanks for this video. I must admit, living in Richmond I’m more up on the Eastern Battles .

My Great Great Grandfather fought and surrendered there and lived to fight at Franklin Tennessee and then went to the prison camp outside of Chicago and died 1928!

How cool would it be if you could take an Ironclad ride up or down the mississippi man oh man.

We love Gary!!!

Are you going to cover the CSA side and their perspective on the siege/battle? My great grandfather was there on the CSA side and I’d like to know what he experienced.

Garry with 2 r's is the man!

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They shot this in March. A few weeks before the Rolling Fork tornado.

" Up the Yazoo" I tried not to laugh but it came out my nose.

My question has alway been-where did these Union flotillas come from? Where were these ships, gunboats, ironclads, etc built and launched? They couldn't have come from the shipyards in the east. No? There's a Civil War book out there that I'd like to read.

I'm very sure history will carry the CITY OF VICKSBURG to the last of the time !!!! 🗽🗽🗽

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When I visited there I found a Union cannon that was not spiked. I put a long blade of grass in the fuse hole and could see it when looking down the barrel. What to see rare Confederate made cannons. Go to Shilo.

Great presentation as usual….I always wanted to learn about Gen. Grant's campaign to take Vicksburg…And now I will..🔫🔫🔫🔫🙏👼🏻💁‍♀️

Does Vicksburg celebrate the Union victory in and around the 4th of July every year?

Also I've romantic encounters here lovely sunsets

What about the Tullahoma campaign?

A meander.

Are you gonna talk about the michigan 8th light artie

There’s a reason Vicksburg and most of Mississippi didn’t acknowledge or celebrate the 4th of July until 1976.

Sigh. The surrender... my Great Great Great Grandpa lost many personal properties that day. Though Pemberton tried to negotiated to allow my family to keep the slaves. He gave in at the end. Such a tragedy.

Never heard Cairo pronounced as Karo, like the syrup.

Perfect day for that video, just the right kind of weather wasn't it.

Need jackets in Mississippi at this time of year? Cold snap?

Once the Union controlled the Mississippi river, the clock began to run down even faster for the Confederacy.

Where are the most Illinoisans buried outside IL? Vicksburg.

Oh, the years creep slowly by, Lorena, The snow is on the ground again. The sun's low down the sky, Lorena, The frost gleams where the flow'rs have been. But the heart beats on as warmly now, As when the summer days were nigh. Oh, the sun can never dip so low A-down affection's cloudless sky.

Hi, jshmo45

Enslaving humans is unacceptable.

I like they let a slow talking Yankees do this one.

Who was in charge of the confederate batteries at Vicksburg? They never sighted the shore?! Disastrous

It's a sin if you don't stop the old country buffet and larman

My dad's grandfather immigrated at 16 years old from what once was a portion of Germany (East Prussia). By the time he was 21, the Civil War had just begun and like so many German immigrants, he was eager to volunteer to help defend his new country from those who would destroy it. Destroy his new country for the very worst of reasons: SLAVERY. His regiment was the 29'th Wisconsin. He and his regiment did well during Grant's brilliant Vicksburg Campaign, especially at Champion's Hill. He was part of the infamous "Red River Campaign" and nearly died of what must have been malaria complicated by a malignant enteritis (possibly typhoid). He was shipped down and then up to the big hospital at Cairo, Ill, but continued to get worse, so they shipped him home to Wisconsin basically to die. He slowly got better, but he was too weak to join his unit for the General Discharge at the end of the war. A few years after the war's end he married a German gal in Wisconsin, restlessly moved from place to place until settling in Union City, OK and lived well into his 80's.

The tractor humor was very punny......

Suffering suckatash

Right from the beginning, the presenter showed an excess of personality that didn’t ring true, very overdone, which meant I was going to be really annoyed longer than I wished to inflict upon myself. If this is meant to interest kids and I’m in the wrong place, fine….I’ll try to find the lay of the land somewhere else. If it’s for adults, then adults like me won’t stick around.

This answered a question I have long wondered and that is when Vicksburg was cut off from the Mississippi River.