The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library)

The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant’s siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote’s narrative of the great battles of the Civil War–culled from his massive three-volume history–recounting a campaign which Lincoln called “one of the most brilliant in the world.”