... Vicksburg was going to fall, it would be in the hands of a huge combined land and naval operation. Earlier victories at Iuka and Corinth in Mississippi had led Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to be named commander of the Department of Tennessee in October 1862 and the very difficult task of clearing the Mississippi of rebel resistance and capturing Vicksburg was given ... ...

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