After two failed frontal assaults on Vicksburg, Mississippi, Major General Ulysses Simpson (a.k.a. Hiram Ulysses) Grant, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Tennessee, sets up a siege around the city.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 175.
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