What was Ulysses Grant's goal at Vicksburg? to starve the city into submission and gain control of the Mississippi River to hold his position outside the city until reinforcements could arrive to reduce the size of the Confederate forces by killing as many soldiers as possible to show Abraham Lincoln that Grant should become commander of the Union army.



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Ulysses Grant's goal at Vicksburg was to starve city into submission and gain control of the Mississippi River to hold his position outside the city. He then bombed the city.

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to starve city into submission and gain control of the Mississippi River

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