The Vicksburg Campaign | Daily Bellringer

Vicksburg: In the spring of 1863, Ulysses S Grant pushed his Union army towards the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. The actions here would change the course of the war and set Grant on a path to lead the Union to victory in the Civil War. Questions below:

1. If the Union could capture Vicksburg they would have control of what river?
2. After the failed Bayou Campaign, what was Grant's new plan to attack Vicksburg?
3. Where did many residents of Vicksburg end up living during the siege?
4. What Confederate states were cut off from the rest of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg?
5. Why was the capture of Vicksburg so important? Why do historians consider it a turning point in the war?

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