"Siege of Vicksburg" Print
- Contributor: Unknown
- Year: 1863
- Themes: US Civil War, USA/America, War, Military
- Horizontal Landscape Orientation
- Art Type: Fine art print, canvas, framed wall art, giclee print
& canvas
- Country of Origin: USA
- All canvases ship ready to hang on 3/4 in. wood stretchers (2
in. for Heavy Duty), with the exception of unstretched canvas
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major action in the
Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of
maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the
Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate
army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into defensive lines surrounding
the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. After two assaults
(May 19 and May 22) against the Confederate fortifications were
repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant besieged the city from May 25
to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the
Mississippi River to the Union. The Confederate surrender at
Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Robert E.
Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of
the war.