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Vicksburg Campaign Quiz

Think you know a thing or two about the 1863 Vicksburg Campaign? Take our quiz and find out.

Question - Not Required - In 1863, the city of Vicksburg sat on a bluff above what famous American river? Mississippi
Missouri
Rappahannock
Arkansas
Potomac

Question - Not Required - Name the top Union and Confederate commanders of the 1863 Vicksburg Campaign? William T. Sherman and Braxton Bragg
Ulysses S. Grant and John Pemberton
Ulysses S. Grant and Albert Sydney Johnston
William T. Sherman and John Pemberton
Henry Halleck and Joseph E. Johnston

Question - Not Required - Abraham Lincoln claimed that "Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket." What made Vicksburg so important? Vicksburg was the site of the only major cannon foundry in the Western theater. The Vicksburg cannon works supplied more than 50% of all Confederate artillery pieces.
Vicksburg was a major port for Confederate blockade runners bringing critical supplies to the South.
Vicksburg was Confederate President Jefferson Davis' hometown and thus had huge symbolic value to the Confederacy
Confederate control of Vicksburg would block Union use of the Mississippi and would protect a vital Confederate agricultural supply line to the trans-Mississippi.
Confederate control of Vicksburg would prevent the Union from conducting a successful invasion of Louisiana and Arkansas.

Question - Not Required - Union attempts to take Vicksburg in late 1862 and early 1863 met with little success. Ulysses S. Grant was forced to suspend an 1862 offensive when his key supply base at Holly Springs, Mississippi was captured in a raid led by this Confederate general: James Longstreet
Earl Van Dorn
John Hunt Morgan
Phil Sheridan
JEB Stuart

Question - Not Required - On April 16, 1863 Admiral David Porter, in support of Grant's new offensive against Vicksburg, would successfully maneuver his gunboats and empty troop transports past the bristling defenses of Vicksburg. What key observation led to the Federal navy's success in slipping past Vicksburg? That Confederate gunners would not be able to see his naval forces during a moonless, nighttime move
That the poor state of Confederate artillery shells and gunpowder rendered most of their river cannons unusable
Intelligence sources had informed Porter that most of the Confederate artillerists had been redeployed to the landward defenses
That the Confederate guns high upon the Vicksburg bluffs would have trouble hitting ships travelling closest to the Vicksburg side of the river.
That newly installed iron plates atop Union ships would defeat most Confederate artillery hits.

Question - Not Required - After his successful landing at Bruinsburg, Mississippi on April 29-30, 1863, Grant's forces would move inland. Before laying siege to Vicksburg, Grant would engage Confederate forces in a number of important preliminary battles. Which of these was NOT one of those battles: Fort Donelson
Raymond
Champion Hill
Jackson
Big Black River Bridge
Port Gibson

Question - Not Required - Despite securing a victory at the Battle of Raymond (May 12, 1863), the surprisingly strong Confederate attack upon his flank forced Grant to first attack a Confederate army in his rear at Jackson before moving on Vicksburg. Who was the commander of this Confederate relief army located at Jackson? P.G.T. Beauregard
A.P. Hill
Stephen D. Lee
Joseph E. Johnston
John Bell Hood

Question - Not Required - Many consider the Union victory at the Battle of Champion Hill (May 16, 1863) to be the decisive battle of Grant's 1863 Vicksburg Campaign. Which of the following was NOT a significant outcome of this battle: Jefferson Davis would direct Stephen D. Lee to replace John Pemberton as the head of the Army of Mississippi.
The numerically inferior Confederate army would suffer almost 1,500 more casualties than their Union attackers
That Pemberton's only remaining option was to retreat into his lines around Vicksburg and await his fate
General William Loring's much needed division would independently retreat towards Jackson and away from Vicksburg.
Confederate Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman would be killed in a rearguard action toward the end of the battle

Question - Not Required - After several bloody and ineffectual attacks against the entrenched Confederate defenders around Vicksburg, Grant settled into a siege of the city. Looking for a way through the defenses, Grant's forces detonated an explosive-filled mine underneath the 3rd Louisiana Redan position on June 23, 1863. What effect did this mine explosion and Union attack have on the Confederates? Little to no impact. Despite 26 hours of unabated fury, Union forces were unable to bring about a true breakthrough and the breach was subsequently sealed.
The June 23rd attack forced the Confederates to fall back to their reserve lines around Vicksburg
Grant's more numerous soldiers were able to pour through the sudden gap in the Confederate lines forcing Pemberton to surrender his army the next day.
The loss of the 3rd Louisiana Redan eliminated the last route of retreat for Pemberton's forces

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Question - Not Required - General Pemberton, sensing that the time had come to surrender the city of Vicksburg, rode out to meet Grant and to seek terms. What surrender terms did Pemberton ultimately accept from Grant? Immediate and unconditional surrender of the city and its garrison
The offer of parole to the entire Vicksburg garrison

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