Vicksburg: Campaign Overview

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Vicksburg Campaign Overview

• Cadet Baker, Daniel L.

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Agenda

• The significance of Vicksburg
• The Key Players
• Forces Engaged in the Battle
• Estimated Casualties
• Obstacles
• Solutions
• Flaws
• Conclusion

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The Significance of Vicksburg

• Last Confederate Bastion on the MS river
• Taking Vicksburg would sever the Souths supply
  lines.
• Union Navy could have safe passage down the
  river.
• Union could freely patrol river to assist Army.

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The Key Players

• The Union
• Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
• Rear Adm. David D. Porter
• The Confederacy
• Lt. Gen. Jon C. Pemberton
• Gen. Joseph E. Johnson

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Forces Engaged in the Battle

• The Union
• Army of Tennessee ( 40,000)
• The Confederacy
• Garrison of Vicksburg ( 22,000)

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Estimated Casualties

• The Union
• 10,142
• The Confederacy
• 9,901

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Obstacles

• The Union
• The MS summer was uncomfortable for the northern
  troops.
• Supply line was constantly pestered by
  Confederate Calvary.
• Trying to find an acceptable point of attack into
  Vicksburg.

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Obstacles

• The Confederacy
• Trying to fight a numerically superior opposing
  force.
• Trying to find a way to supply the army and
  civilians with food while under siege.
• Working with no unity of effort.

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Solutions

• The Union
• The Union forces learned to cope with the
  weather.
• Grant cut off his supply lines and lived off the
  land.
• Grant ran gunboats and transports at night past
  the bluffs to assist in crossing the river and
  then attack from the South.

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Flaws of the South

• The Confederacy
• Could not overcome the overwhelming force.
• Only supplied the army and neglected the
  civilians.
• Never got the army to work together.

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Conclusion

• The Union won because
• They were able to adapt to weather, terrain, and
  the Souths cavalry.
• The Union kept moving and maneuvering while the
  Confederates at Vicksburg stayed stationary.

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