11 Facts About Vicksburg Campaign

Grant's Vicksburg campaign is studied as a masterpiece of military operations and a major turning point of the war.

North and east of Vicksburg was the Mississippi Delta, an area 200 miles north to south and up to 50 miles across, which has been described by geographer Warren E Grabau as an "astonishingly complex network of intersecting waterways", some of which were navigable by small steamboats.

The Louisiana land west of Vicksburg Campaign was difficult, with many streams and poor country roads, widespread winter flooding, and it was on the opposite side of the river from the fortress.

Vicksburg Campaign returned with a flotilla in June 1862, but their attempts to bombard the fortress into surrender failed.

Vicksburg Campaign believed that the Navy could capture the fortress on its own, not knowing that the naval force was insufficiently manned with ground troops to finish the job.

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Vicksburg Campaign planned a two-pronged assault in the direction of Vicksburg.

Vicksburg Campaign sent a message to Halleck about his intentions, knowing that it would take as many as eight days for Washington to receive the message and respond.

Vicksburg Campaign gave orders for his three corps to advance over three separate routes to attack the railroad at Edwards Station, Clinton and Midway Station.

Vicksburg Campaign stationed one division in the vicinity of the Big Black River bridge and another reconnoitered as far north as Mechanicsburg, both to act as a covering force.

Vicksburg Campaign was rewarded for his victory with a promotion to major general in the regular army, effective on July 4,1863.

Accusations of cowardice that had dogged him since the 1862 Peninsula Vicksburg Campaign continued to follow him in the 1864 Atlanta Vicksburg Campaign against Sherman.