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The Wilderness was a battle, not a campaign. It was the first battle of the Overland Campaign (May 1864). Lee had won this battle, but Grant did not retreat. He hung on Lee's flank and eventually crowded him into a corner.
He was determination to do what he had to do
The citizens resisted Grants attack by keeping him out of Vicksburg. What ends up happening is Grants forces stop food from going into Vicksburg forcing Vicksburg to surrender.
Victory at Vicksburg secured control of the Mississippi Valley for the Union.
It took Grants army six weeks to capture the city of Vicksburg.
It was named in honor of General Ulysses S. Grant's victory at Vicksburg
The Battle of Champion's Hill
It was the end of the war in the West, and Grant was able to go to the aid of the Army of the Cumberland in Chattanooga.
Grant starved them out for forty days and pounded them with artillery until they surrendered.
Grant starved them out for forty days and pounded them with artillery until they surrendered.
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General Grant was in the Western Theatre of the war, laying siege to the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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