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Grant Moves South to Vicksburg With Raids and Feints
Ulysses S. Grant drives his army south from LaGrange toward Vicksburg Mississippi aided by a long cavalry raid led by Benjamin H. Grierson and a feint north of the city by William T. Sherman. Grierson’s 1,700 men cut rail lines and destroyed telegraph wires over 600 miles in 16 days. Sherman’s feint and Porter’s gunboats created smoke and deception to weaken Pemberton’s defense as Grant prepared crossing below Vicksburg.
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United Press International
Ulysses S$. Grant
Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi
Louisiana
John A. McClernand
James Birdseye McPherson
John C. Pemberton
Grant
William T. Sherman
Sherman
LaGrange
Tenn
Mississippi Tennessee Line
Memphis
Grierson
Benjamin H. Grierson
6Th Illinois Cavalry
7Th Illinois Cavalry
2Nd
Iowa Cavalry
Ilinois
Mobile & Ohio
Corinth
Mississippi Central
Memhis
Jackson
Louisana
Ripley
Hiram Love
Iowa
Love
Edward Hatch
Macon
Hatch
7Th
Newton
Visburg
Union Church
Grand Gulf
Illinois
Richard Surby
Butternut Guerillas
Brookhaven
Baton Rouge
Nathaniel P. Banks
Starkville
Hale & Murdock
Hain's Bluff
Pemberton
William L. B. Jenney
David D. Porter
Jenney
Haines Bluff
Haine’s