The Battle of Vicksburg (Mississippi) concludes: Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, commanding the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Mississippi, repels a second attack by the compulsory Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Ulysses Simpson (a.k.a. Hiram Ulysses) Grant. This forces Grant to lay siege to the city.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 293.
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