Concise overview of the Battle of Vicksburg. Also includes links to related resources such as maps, military bios, videos, and pictures.

The fall of Vicksburg, Miss., to forces under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is remembered for the long, intensive siege that led up to it. But before the Union Army put a stranglehold on Vicksburg, Grant made two disastrous assaults on the city, on May 19 and 22.

Collection of letters from the Christie family that address the Battle of Vicksburg among other topics concerning the Civil War.

Civilians of Vicksburg were warned that a siege on their city was a distinct possibility and that they should either prepare themselves to withstand, or they should get out before the storm broke.

Three eyewitness accounts describe what it was like for Vicksburg civilians to burrow underground to escape unrelenting shellfire

Confederate general John Pemberton fought Ulysses S. Grant, his own commander and a subordinate during the Vicksburg campaign.

The culmination of many months' effort that entailed frustrating setbacks for Union forces, the victory at Vicksburg underscored Grant's determination, willingness to take risks and clarity of purpose when others--including Abraham Lincoln and Grant's friend and subordinate William Tecumseh Sherman-had expressed doubts about the result.