2014 LBG Seminar Session #11: The Gibraltar of the Confederacy

Session #11 of the 2014 Licensed Battlefield Guide Training Seminar, held on March 11, 2014 at Vicksburg National Military Park's Visitor Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Ranger Jake Koch presents The Gibraltar of the Confederacy: The Assaults of May 19 & 22 and the Siege of Vicksburg.
Musical Intro is an excerpt from "Twas at the Siege of Vicksburg" by the 2nd South Carolina String Band at the Vicksburg Sesquicentennial Civil War Heritage Fair on April 5, 2013. Used with permission.
A. Grant comes knocking at the door.
Morale on Both Sides
The Confederate Defenses upon Grant's Arrival
Grant's Arrival
B. The Assaults
May 19th Assault up Graveyard Rd
Synchronized Assault of May 22
Bombardment at 5am
10am Assault
Forlorn Hope
Graveyard Rd.
Jackson Rd.
Great Redoubt
2nd Texas
RR Redoubt
McClernand
"Vicksburg will Soon be Ours" Quote
C. Ceasefire
Missourians
Engineering Opportunity
D. Siege Operations Begin
Battle of Milliken's Bend -- June 7
The Anatomy of an Approach Trench: Logan's Approach
3rd Louisiana Redan Mining and Assault
Ransom's Gun Path: John Wesley Powell
The Exterior Line: Leander Stillwell Quote
E. Nearing the End
Map of Lines at the End of the Siege