where was the battle of vicksburg held?
Warren County
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 The Siege of Vicksburg ( May 18 – July 4 , 1863 ) was the final major military 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 Mississippi led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg , Mississippi . 

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 Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River ; therefore , capturing it completed the second part of the Northern strategy , the Anaconda Plan . When two major assaults ( May 19 and 22 , 1863 ) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties , Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25 . With no reinforcement , supplies nearly gone , and after holding out for more than forty days , the garrison finally surrendered on July 4 . 

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 Located on the high bluffs of the Mississippi River , Vicksburg , Mississippi was the last major obstacle to Union control of that river ; both Lincoln and Grant saw it as the key to victory in the West and were determined to take the rebel stronghold . Grant 's Army held western Tennessee having almost 40 @,@ 000 troops available to fight . Grant was aggravated to learn that Lincoln authorized Major General John A. McClernand to raise a separate army for the purpose . Halleck ordered McClernand to Memphis , and placed him under Grant 's authority . Grant planned to attack Vicksburg on land from the east while Sherman attacked the fortress from the Mississippi River , but two Confederate cavalry raids , on December 11 and 20 , prevented the armies from connecting . On December 29 , a Confederate army led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton repulsed Sherman 's direct approach to Vicksburg at Chickasaw Bayou . McClernand reached Sherman 's army , assumed command , and independently of Grant led a campaign that captured Confederate Fort Hindman . 

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 The Union counteroffensive never came ; the Army of the Potomac was exhausted and nearly as damaged at the end of the three days as the Army of Northern Virginia . Meade was content to hold the field . On July 4 , the armies observed an informal truce and collected their dead and wounded . Meanwhile , Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of the Vicksburg garrison along the Mississippi River , splitting the Confederacy in two . These two Union victories are generally considered the turning point of the Civil War . 

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 The next major stage in the peace making process concluding the American Civil War was the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston and his armies to Major General William T. Sherman on April 26 , 1865 , at Bennett Place . Johnston 's Army of Tennessee was among nearly one hundred thousand Confederate soldiers that were surrendered from North Carolina , South Carolina , Georgia , and Florida . The conditions of surrender were in a document called " Terms of a Military Convention " signed by Sherman , Johnston , and Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Raleigh , North Carolina . 
