VICKSBURG

A decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863)

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• Confederate city that surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863

• May 19-July 4, 1863

• A town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River west of Jackson

• Focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves

• After being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered