![]() ![]() ![]() Pemberton, Grant left Sherman before the city and ordered a cavalry raid through central Mississippi. To divert the attention of the Confederate commander, John C. After several unsuccessful experiments to gain an approach to the seemingly impregnable city (Feb.–Mar., 1863), Grant in April began a brilliant movement to take it from the south. ![]() In Jan., 1863, Grant concentrated his army across the river from Vicksburg. Forrest cut Grant's line of communications, forcing him to retreat, and Sherman was repulsed in the battle of Chickasaw Bluffs (Dec. ![]() However, Confederate cavalry under Earl Van Dorn and Nathan B. Sherman led an expedition down the river from Memphis to attack the city from the north, while Grant himself advanced overland from the east. of the Tennessee, planned a converging assault on Vicksburg Gen. As a result the South still held 200 mi (320 km) of the river between Port Hudson, La., and Vicksburg. New Orleans and Memphis fell to Union forces in the spring of 1862, but an attempt to take Vicksburg, Miss., by water failed (May–June). The Union wanted such control in order to split the Confederacy and to restore free commerce to the politically important Northwest. Vicksburg campaign, in the American Civil War, the fighting (Nov., 1862–July, 1863) for control of the Mississippi River. ![]()
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