ENGL 250: GREAT AMERICAN BOOKS
"Arms and the Man"
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The Unvanquished
(1938)
by
William Faulkner
(1897-1962)
Important turning point in Civil War:
On July 4, 1863, Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton surrendered the Confederate bastion of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Union forces under Major General Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender brought an end to 47 days of unendurable siege, but it also brought an end to Confederate control of the Mississippi River.