Talk:Vicksburg Campaign

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I wrote this article as a companion to the other campaign articles I've contributed. It used to be a REDIRECT to the Battle of Vicksburg. I intend to rewrite that 'battle' page to represent only the actual battle/siege of the city. Actually, that 'page' is eight separate articles and once the text about the siege and the Battle of Champion Hill is relocated, there should be no reason to keep 7 of the 8 pages. They don't fit into the overall encyclopedia style anyway. They are long-winded, colloquial, seem to have section headers for every few sentences, and are packed with quotations from popular historians. And they include too much biographical commentary on Grant. It's more like a magazine article than an encyclopedia article. Hal Jespersen 22:39, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] expansion

I am starting an upgrade of the Vicksburg-related articles and have started with a partial upgrade of the campaign article itself. I have added in a number of references that I intend to use for footnotes, but this process is not completed yet. I would appreciate it if others would not delete any of these references until I am finished. Thanks. Hal Jespersen (talk) 23:17, 2 March 2008 (UTC)