Question 5 • DRHS GA-GSE US History A
Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant surrounded Vicksburg and cut off its supplies. After about six weeks of siege, the Confederate defenders surrendered on July 4, 1863. Thus, Vicksburg finally fell after a long siege of the city; it did not have to wait until the Confederacy lost the war.
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