Mississippi river.
Mississippi River.
control of the Mississippi River
The siege of Vicksburg
After the capture of Vicksburg in July 1863.
Vicksburg. It split the Confederacy in two, isolated the forces to the West of the river, and denied the enemy the use of this important waterway for the movement of men and materials. By ending the war in the Western theatre, it released Grant for important work in Tennessee.===================================================Falling to the Union forces after a 40 day siege, the Confederate defeat at Vicksburg is considered a major turning point in the Western theater of the Civil War. When the Confederate garrison surrendered their fortifications on July 4th, 1863, the Union military gained complete control of the Mississippi River.
The river-port of Vicksburg - a major Confederate garrison.
The Battle of Vicksburg
The defeats at Vicksburg severely wounded the South because of control of the area. By the North defeating the South in this area, they took control of the Mississippi River, and that cut the Confederacy in half.
This would be the siege of Vicksburg. This battle was an important part of the war for the north because it started out a train of victories.
Part of the Northern strategy was to take control of the Mississippi River. Vicksburg was a large and powerful city on the river, heavily defended, and it had to be taken in order to complete this stratgy.
During the American Civil War, the North's success in gaining control of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in July of 1863, resulted in much more than the conquest of yet another Southern city. With Vicksburg in hand, the North now gained control of the entire Mississippi River, thereby breaking the South into two separate halves and opening up the Deep South to invasion.