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The Siege Of Vicksburg
My American Civil War project topic is The Siege Of Vicksburg. It
is one of the more remarkable campaigns of the American Civil
War. For many a hard fought month, Ulysses S. Grant and his
Army of the Tennessee had been trying to wrest away the
strategic Confederate river fortress of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Previous, direct attempts to take this important town high above
the Mississippi River were blocked by deft rebel counter moves
and some of the most pernicious terrain in the entire Western
theater.
In late April 1863, Grant undertook a new and bold campaign
against Vicksburg and the Confederate defenders under John
Pemberton. After conducting a surprise landing below Vicksburg
at Bruinsburg, Mississippi, Grant’s forces moved rapidly inland,
pushing back the threat posed by Joseph E. Johnston’s forces near
Jackson. Once his rear was clear, Grant again turned his sights on
Vicksburg.
Court House Long Description Union victories at Champion Hill and
Big Black Bridge weakened Pemberton’s forces, leaving the
Confederate chief with no alternative but to retreat to Vicksburg's
defenses. The Federals assailed the Rebel stronghold on May 19 and
22, but were repulsed with such great loss that Grant determined to
lay siege to the city to avoid further loss of life. Soldiers and
civilians alike endured the privations of siege warfare for 47 days
before the surrender of Pemberton’s forces on July 4, 1863. With
the Mississippi River now firmly in Union hands, the Confederacy's
fate was all but sealed.
The Siege Of Vicksburg is in
Mississippi. About 83 miles
away from Sardis Mississippi.
The Vicksburg Campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in
the Western Theater of the American Civil War directed against
Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominated the last
Confederate-controlled section of the Mississippi River. The Union
Army of the Tennessee under the command of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant gained control of the river by capturing this stronghold and
defeating Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's forces stationed
there.
The campaign consisted of many important naval operations, troop
maneuvers, failed initiatives, and eleven distinct battles over the
period December 26, 1862, to July 4, 1863. Military historians
divide the campaign into two formal phases: Operations Against
Vicksburg (December 1862–January 1863) and Grant's Operations
Against Vicksburg (March–July 1863).
Vicksburg, Mississippi, was an important, well-protected fortress
for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. On May 19, 1863,
Union General Ulysses S. Grant attacked Vicksburg with intent to
take over the city. The Union navy had already prevented other
recruits from joining Confederate General C. Pemberton.
When most people think of sieges, they tend to think of catapults,
barrels of tar, ladders, moats, and battering rams. A specialty of
Roman and Medieval warfare, the siege had lost its usefulness in
the Napoleonic era. Armies, before the Civil War, met in large
numbers of over 100,000 out in the fields of Europe. But the United
States was not Europe. If anything, the Confederacy was
geographically the opposite of Europe. In climate, it was hot and
humid in the summer. In terrain, it was heavily forested and
mountainous in the Eastern Theater. Warfare was changing and the
technology along with it created for massive casualties in the Civil
War. For Union General Ulysses S. Grant, the siege was more an act
of desperation to take Vicksburg
For Grant, this was not his first siege. At Corinth in northeastern
Mississippi, Grant had his army taken away from him for a while
by Henry Halleck. Halleck employed the siege strategy in part
because the previous battle at Shiloh had been so bloody. In
addition, Corinth was not a large town. In little over a month in
April and May of 1862, the Union forced the town to surrender and
the Union had taken one of the few railroad junctions in the South.
After the victory, Halleck went back east, Grant was given back the
Army of the Tennessee, but only with 46,000 men
The Siege of Vicksburg began on Monday, May 18, 1863 and ended on Saturday, July 4, 1863.
General Ulysses Grant lead the Union in The Siege of Vicksburg. There was no one specific leader of
the Confederate States army as there were actually several armies that participated on the
Confederate side of the war. However, the Army of Northern Virginia, which was one of the main
armies was led by General Robert E. Lee.
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