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McCluney’s latest book, Gunboats, Rivers, Bayous, and Railroads (2024), focuses on the Western Theater of the War Between the States as an area that is often overshadowed by the by the battles in the east between the Federal Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Despite this, the Western Theater featured several major operations including the Campaign for Vicksburg which proved to have a major effect in the overall war effort and its outcome.
In the early years of the war the North found most of its successes in this theatre. Much has been written on Grant’s 1863 Campaign for Vicksburg and the ensuing siege that would give him the ultimate victory. Therefore, this book will focus on the sometimes-overlooked early attempts by Federal naval and land forces to take the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River from May 1862 – May 1863.
The city’s natural defenses that earned it the nickname, “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy". Jefferson Davis once said, "Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together."
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Gunboats, Rivers, Bayous and Railroads
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On to Vicksburg! The North Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign
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Second book published in 2019 - Go to AMAZON, Lulu Publishing, or go to www.larrymccluney.com/shop/ to order
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In Beauregard's Defense
About the Author
Larry Allen McCluney, Jr., is an Instructor of American History at Mississippi Delta Community College and an American Civil War Living Historian since 1995. Based in Greenwood, Mississippi, he is the author of numerous bestselling books which have been the topic of historical debate among students and historians. Additionally, McCluney is currently a member of the nonprofit organization Sons of Confederate Veterans for over 29 years and currently serves as the 76th Past Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He is also a former Chairman of the Combined Boards that oversees Beauvoir, the last home of the only President of the Confederate States of America. Beauvoir, which is in Biloxi, Mississippi, served as a seaside retirement estate of Jefferson Davis and his family.
McCluney received his bachelors’ and masters’ degree in history at Mississippi State University. Previously, he served as a Golden Triangle Civil War Round Table member and has taught in the Mississippi public school system for the past thirty-two years on the secondary education level and over twenty years on the community college level. McCluney’s publications have focused on political, intellectual, and social history of the American Civil War. His bestselling books are The Yazoo Pass Expedition: A Union Thrust into the Delta (Civil War Series) (2017) (ranked bestseller in Military Pictorial History, Reconstruction History of the U.S., and U.S. Civil War Confederate History), On to Vicksburg!: The Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign (2019), and In Defense of General Beauregard (2022).
McCluney has received many awards for historical preservation from the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy as well as numerous other awards as an educator. He was also chosen as the Mississippi’s top American History teacher in 2014 by the Daughters of the American Revolution and was chosen for Who’s Who Among America’s Top Teachers on numerous occasions.
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