Bibliography of Sources on the Vicksburg Campaigns
These chronologies were prepared from several sources. The basic reference works for the entire Chronologies project are the following:
Civil War Day by Day, by E. B. Long;
The Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War, Patricia Faust, editor;
The Official Records (Guild Press CD version).
Other works used included:
Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton;
The Mississippi, by F.V. Greene (this is the volume in the famous Scribner's Campaigns of the Civil War series);
Grant Rises in the West, by K.P. Williams, originally published as Volume 4 of Lincoln Finds a General;
War on the Mississippi, by Jerry Korn (this is the Vicksburg volume in the Time-Life "gray book" series from the 1980's);
The Vicksburg Campaign (three volumes), by Ed Bearss.