The poor fellow never had a chance to implement a strategy.
On the one hand, he was having to react to Grant's strategies, so brilliant that they are still being studied in military academies.
On the other, he was having to cope with conflicting orders - his President, Jefferson Davis, urging him to hold Vickburg at all costs, and his local commander Joe Johnston advising him to abandon the place and save his army. He tried to do a bit of both and came to grief.
Grant paroled Pemberton's troops.
The Battle of Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
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The Battle of Vicksburg started on May 18th 1863. The Battle of Vicksburg ended on July 4th 1863.
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The called it the Battle of Vicksburg, though, it was actually a siege.
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