| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance. By Christopher Waldrep. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. xviii, 344 pp. $26.95, isbn 0-7425-4868-6.)

When most people think about the turning point of the American Civil War, they think about the battle of Gettysburg. Novelists and filmmakers have made those three days in Pennsylvania the linchpin of their Civil War stories. But many scholars would argue that the true turning point occurred at the same time, a thousand miles away at Vicksburg on the banks of the Mississippi River. When the beleaguered and besieged Confederates surrendered on July 3, 1863, to Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant, they triggered a collision of forces that led ultimately to Appomattox. In Vicksburg's Long Shadow, Christopher Waldrep, a professor at San Francisco State University, wants to give Vicksburg its due, not just as a strategic turning point in the war, but as a place where postwar conflicts over memory and meaning were fought.

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