National Park Civil War Series: Vicksburg

Company

National Park Service

Price

$12.99

Source

Official Store

After a series of trial-and-error attempts, Union soldiers finally gained control of the crucial city of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863. Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant’s shift to and perfection of a diversion strategy threw Confederate Major General John Clifford Pemberton off the Union’s trail, resulting in a siege that would last forty-seven days. Shortly after this overtaking, the Trans-Mississippi supply lines were severed, creating unsurmountable logistical and strategic problems for the Confederacy. Symbolic of the Union’s success was the great river, the backbone of the nation, the…