2014 LBG Seminar Session #8: Joint Forces

Session #8 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 Ray Hamel presents the Joint Forces
Musical Intro is an excerpt from "Give Us A Flag" by 33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band at the Vicksburg Sesquicentennial Civil War Heritage Fair on April 5, 2013. Used with permission.
A GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
I. The Bayou Campaigns, January -- March 1863
a. Attempts to construct alternative waterways to circumvent the heavy guns of Vicksburg
"A series of experiments"
1. William's Canal (also known as Butler's ditch)
2. Grant's Canal
3. Duckport Canal
4. Lake Providence Canal
5. Yazoo Pass Expedition
6. Steele's Bayou Expedition
II. Running the Gauntlet, April 16, 1863
a. Grant needs to get his army below Vicksburg
1. Preparation
2. Execution
3. Result
III. Grant and Porter -- Joint Forces Operations
a. Theater of Operations