Battle of Vicksburg

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Northern success in the Siege of Vicksburg was important because the Union had a plan called the anaconda plan. The anaconda plan is when the Union planned to cut the Confederacy in half. By doing this, the Confederacy would not have any way to obtain (get) supplies (food, clothes, weaponry, etc.) When the siege of Vicksburg was a success, the Union was able to carry out the anaconda plan since the Mississippi River is in Vicksburg, and by taking over the Mississippi River, that split the Confederacy into two.

Vicksburg was the turning point of the Civil War. It gave the Union free reign over the Mississippi, allowing it to strike at will, preventing the South from using the river for transportation of troops and supplies, and giving the Union freedom to attack the interior of the Deep South without fear of attack from the rear.

The battle of Vicksburg was fought over the Mississippi river. The river was a large area for trade.

Vicksburg, Mississippi, is the answer.

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The first assault on Vicksburg began on May 19, 1863. The assault failed so Ulysses S. Grant launched another assault on May 22; this time with his full force. The second assault was also a failure. After two failed attacks Grant lay siege to the city on May 25, 1863. After six painful weeks of fighting and starvation Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton surrendered the fortress of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.

During the American Civil War, Union forces sought in 1862 and 1863 to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Located on high bluffs astride the Mississippi River, Vicksburg was a highly defensible fortress, and its capture proved difficult for the Union troops. Finally in 1863, Vicksburg surrendered after a siege starved them out.

Grant starved them out for forty days and pounded them with artillery until they surrendered.

Vicksburg was the key to the Anaconda Plan's goal of gaining control of the Mississippi River and cutting the South in half.

So true, although the Winfield Scott plan was laughed at when he suggested it, it had to be clear that controlling the Mississippi River was vital to the North's war efforts.

When the siege of Vicksburg ended, General in Chief Henry W. Halleck planned on using the control of the Mississippi River as the base for future operations. Halleck was then in the position to exploit his new advantage with interior lines. He planned on using concentrations first in the West of the Mississippi River then east of it.

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Vicksburg received supplies by river and by rail. Before Grant could take the city by siege, he had to clear the opposite bank of the Mississippi and capture the railhead at Jackson, MS. Grant could easily receive supplies by river, but that limited his ability to maneuver. His greatest gamble was to cut himself off from his supply bases to encircle the city from an unexpected direction, living off the land along the way, as Scott had done during his Vera Cruz Campaign in the Mexican War, and as Sherman would later do in his March to the Sea.

After the Battle of Vicksburg in July 1863, Ulysses S. Grant was appointed as the commander of all Union armies. His leadership was pivotal in the Union's efforts during the Civil War, and he later went on to lead the Union forces to victory. Grant's strategic acumen and determination played a significant role in the overall success of the Union campaign.

They lived in caves or dug shelters into the hillsides.

During the closing days of the Vicksburg Campaign, Lee was engaged in an invasion of Pennsylvania that culminated in the Battle of Gettysburg. One version of events has it that the whole northern invasion was an attempt to draw northern forces away from the Vicksburg area. If so, it was a double failure. It did not draw forces from the West, and it did not succeed on its own.

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.

they used shotguns,rifles,and cannons

In sequence:

Fort Sumter - first shots of the war.

Vicksburg - ended the war in the West.

Gettysburg - ended Lee's last hope of invading the North.

Appomattox - where Lee surrendered to Grant, effectively ending the war.

Yes. Vicksburg cute the Confedracy into two.

No, Major General George Pickett was in command of a division of Longstreet's I Corps in the east with Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. At the time of the Vicksburg Campaign he would have been either in Virginia or later in Pennsylvania fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The Confederate garrison under John C. Pemberton and the Union army under U.S. Grant.

Both generals were hampered by background politics. Grant had to cope with a politician-in-uniform (McClernand) who had been given permission to raise a private army to liberate the Mississippi, apparently in order to steal Grant's thunder. Pemberton's problems were worse - he was receiving conflicting orders from his immediate superior Joe Johnston and his president Jefferson Davis, which totally neutered his efforts.

It still took Grant many months to besiege the garrison into surrender. But it ended the war in the West - coincidentally on the same day as the equally decisive Battle of Gettysburg in faraway Pennsylvania.

Answer The Battle of Champion's Hill, just east of Vicksburg, was fought on 16 May 1863. This battle was fought out in the open and was a set-back for the Confederates. This forced them to return to the defenses of Vicksburg, which began the siege. The siege ended when General Pemberton surrendered Vicksburg on 3 July.

When Vicksburg surrendered to Union General US Grant after a terrible siege, the capture of Vicksburg was the last remaining power place the South had on the Mississippi. It allowed access from New Orleans to St. Louis without having to dodge cannon fire from Vicksburg. Cargo and military gunboats however, were subject to random attacks from the banks of the river and from torpedoes planted as bombs.