Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
When two major assaults were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city . What followed was a critical struggle of endurance for control of the mighty Mississippi.
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