In the battle of Vicksburg Grant led his army of Tennessee to the Mississippi River where they then drove the Confederate troops to the town of Vicksburg Mississippi. After two major attacks by the Union the Confederate did not have re enforcements and were quickly running out of supplies. Grant then invaded Vicksburg and the Confederate surrendered.

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Since the Confederate General Pemberton surrendered the city to General Grant of the Union Army, I suspect the Union claimed victory.

It allowed the Union Army to have total control of the Mississippi River.

Vicksburg controlled access to and on the Mississippi.

During the Battle of Vicksburg (meaning the engagements before the siege), the Confederate commander, Pemberton, was receiving conflicting orders from his immediate chief Joseph Johnston and his president Jefferson Davis. This put him in a vulnerable position, which Grant was able to exploit.

Apart from that, there was the simple matter of Generalship. Grant was simply a better strategist and tactician than the inexperienced Pemberton.

General John C. Pemberton was the commanding officer for the Confederacy in the 1863 Battle of Vicksburg..

He was born in Philadelphia, and had two brothers serving on the Union side.

But he had married the daughter of a Virginia farmer, and became a loyal member of the Southern life. When the war started, he threw in his lot with the Confederates.

It took almost two years of campaigning for the North to gain control of Vicksburg.

After a dreadful siege, Pemberton surrendered to General US Grant. Grant placed the captured Confederate soldiers on "parole" and set them free.

General Pemberton was called a lot of names for losing Vicksburg. It was hinted that his heart wasn't in it, because of his Northern origins - not a true Confederate, some said. In shame, he resigned his General's commission and re-enlisted as a private. Although he was soon back up to Colonel, he was never given a key appointment again.

To blockade the Confederate Ports, intercepting the blockade runners and hunt down the Confederate cruisers, which were trying to capture or sink the Union merchant ships, throughout the seas.

The campaign to sieze Vicksburg took place over a four state area around Vicksburg, Mississippi (Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi).

Ulysses S. Grant won the siege of Vicksburg.

By capturing Vicksburg, the last major river-port in Confederate hands.

It was almost impossible to attack the high-lying town from the West bank where Grant had been ordered to march against his will.

Through brilliant diversionary tactics, he was able to cross the river downstream, without the commander of the garrison noticing.

Then he brought the Confederates to battle, helped by the bad situation of the garrison commander, who was receiving conflicting orders.

It should be noted that the siege on Vicksburg was the Union's third and final attempt to capture this important city.

After Grant managed to cross the river, the surrender of Vicksburg was not 'if' but 'when'.

Pemberton did score some successes against Sherman, but was fatally handicapped by conflicting orders - President Davis telling him to hold the town at any cost, and his immediate superior Joe Johnston urging him to abandon the place and join forces with him.

In Virginia, Longstreet wanted to send troops to help Pemberton, and some say this could have saved the situation in the West.

Life for the Confederate troops and civilians was pretty bleak. They hunkered down in the earthworks waiting for relief and listening to the constant bombardment while starving to death. Union troops had few such problems after they reestablished their supply lines.

Vicksburg was, indeed, the last Confederate fort on the Mississippi, and its presence allowed Texas beef and other goods to cross into the Eastern Confederate states. By taking this crucial point, the Federals split the Confederacy in two, following the very good advice to "divide, and conquer."

The fall of Vicksburg closed off the Mississippi to Confederate traffic, making them unable to reinforce or resupply its forces in the Deep South, giving Federal Forces freedom of movement, and securing its rear against the enemy attack.

Gettysburg ended the South's attempt to attack into the Union and doomed the Army of Northern Virginia to a purely defensive role. Victory by the Union at Vicksburg gained full control of the Mississippi River, split off Texas from the rest of the deep South, and ended any concern of attack in the West.

The American Civil War battle that took place at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863, concluded on the 4th of July of that year. After a 40-day siege, the exhausted Confederate forces finally laid down their arms to the victorious Union army led by Ulysses Grant.

The Confederate defeat at Vicksburg was important because it closed off the Mississippi River to the Confederacy. It divided the eastern Confederacy from Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, depriving it of men, horses, and war material.

For the allies, the commanders and leaders in the battle of the Bulge was;

-Dwight D. Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander)

-Omar N. Bradley (12th U.S. Army Group)

-Courtney Hodges (1st U.S. Army)

-George S. Patton (3rd U.S Army)

-Bernard Montgomery (UK Leader)

For Nazi Germany, the commanders and leaders in the battle of the bulge was;

-Adolf Hitler (LEADER)

-alter Model

-Gerd von Rundstedt

-Hasso von Manteuffel

-Sepp Dietrich

-Erich Brandenberger

Capturing the Confederate city of Vicksburg was worth the numbered separate Union campaigns to do so. This was because of its strategic position on the Mississippi River. The Union wanted to control the entire river in order to secure a good position on the western front. But not only that, as Vicksburg was a center for receiving supplies to the west of the city and shipping them to various parts of the South. As it came to be, Vicksburg could only be taken via a long siege. The city basically reached a point of starvation.

It gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River

U.S. Grant led the U.S. forces at the Siege of Vicksburg.

Vicksburg's gun emplacements were in a well fortified position commanding the approaches to the Mississippi River at a hairpin bend. The emplacements were on the heights, impossible to assault from the front, and impervious to bombardment from the river or the opposite bank. Grant only succeeded by taking an indirect route through the bayous, encircling the town and investing it from the landward side, similar to Lawrence's attack on Aqaba, except Grant's assaults failed and he had to settle into a six-week siege to reduce the city by bombardment and starvation.

The ultimate outcome was that, with Vicksburg in Union hands, the Union controlled nearly the entire length of the Mississippi River (when Port Hudson fell 5 days later, this control became total). This split the Confederacy into two parts and, coupled with the naval blockade, prevented Confederate troops in the "Trans-Mississippi Department" (Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, most of Louisiana, and what was then known as "Indian Territory" but later became the state of Oklahoma) from effectively participating in the remainder of the war in the east.

During the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863, the short-term objective for each side was to hold with superior force the field of battle at its conclusion. Holding the field would contribute powerfully to the long-term objectives of the combatants: for the South, continuing their invasion of the North; for the North, blocking the Southern advance and perhaps even initiating offensive action of their own.

John C. Pemberton

High bluffs, right on the river, making it impossible to attack from that side.

That's why Grant had to get his troops across the river into the interior of Mississippi, which took months.