<P> 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . </P>
who was the union general who captured vicksburg and then won the civil war
who was the union general who captured vicksburg and then won the civil war
Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant