Thus, for example, he records the shock of the new sounds of secession in Charleston, South Carolina, from the bells tolling secession to the shells bombarding Fort Sumter; or, for another example, the aching hunger and loss of taste that beset the people in Vicksburg during Grant's siege....
s breastwork composed of two logs on the parapet of the entrenchment, and many of Lee’s victories were the result of his ability to use hasty entrenchments as a base for aggressive employment of fire and maneuver. Two notablesieges, that ofVicksburg, Miss., in the west, andPetersburg, ...