may 18, 1863 - Ulysses S. Grant
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During the siege of Vicksburg, while the Union navy ran gunboats and transports past the Confederate cannons commanding the river at Vicksburg, Grant moved his army eastward. Grant captured Jackson, Mississippi, trapping Confederates inside Vicksburg. Grant wore down the Confederates with this strategy.
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