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After the Confederate victory at the battle of Brice's Crossroads, the supply lines for Sherman's armies in Georgia became increasingly vulnerable

Confederate cavalry, commanded by Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest, faced 7,000 cavalry under the command of Gen William Sooy Smith and defeated them at Okolona, causing 100 casualties for the loss of 50

In a series of maneuvers, Union Gen Ulysses Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Gen John Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi

Union commander Major General Ulysses Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate Lieutenant General John Pemberton and defeated his army twenty miles to the east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, leading inevitably to the Siege ...

The bitter fight pitted elements of Union Army Gen Ulysses Grant's Army of the Tennessee against Confederate forces of Gen John Pemberton's Department of the Mississippi and East Louisiana