By means of the seize of Vicksburg on July 4 1863 and Port Hudson on July 9, 1863, after a campaign which lasted about three months.
the battle of gettis berg
Grant
Battle of Vicksburg
Vicksburg
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Are you from Yorktown High School.
Vicksburg did. That's why Grant took it.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
they gained control of the Mississippi river
General US Grant was new to the US Civil War, but under his superior, General Henry Halleck, Grant had duties in the Western Theater of the war. When he was able to capture Fort Donelson and Fort Henry, he and the Union gained control of the Northern Mississippi River and a gateway to the southern Mississippi and eventually to Vicksburg and the deep South.
Vicksburg
Siege of Vicksburg.
Grant's capture of Vicksburg did that.