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Civil War | Gettysburg | 5

American History Tellers

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The Battle of Bicksburg

Grant's reputation for drinking and his aggressive tactics on the battlefield made him a subject of controversy. Many Northerners urged Lincoln to remove Grant from his command but Lincoln refused declaring I can't spare this man. By the fall of 1862 grant was commanding the army of the Tennessee He resolved to capture Vicksburg and break the South's grip on the Mississippi It would be no easy task Dicksburg was perched on steep and heavily fortified bluffs 200 feet above the river in Penitiable swamps protected the city from both north and south attacks.

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