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There is no single event that triggered the Siege of Vicksburg. It was recognized as a strategic defensive position from the time that Grant began operations in the lower Mississippi Valley. Grant and Lincoln realized that the capture of Vicksburg would place the entire lower Mississippi in Union hands, especially since the Union had already captured New Orleans by sea.

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