Well, for the Union cause, anyway. Gettysburg had been won the day before, and most recognized that the fall of Vicksburg was the turning point in the war. Union victory was almost inevitable at that point, though it would take almost two more bloody years.
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It was an amazing act of courage by Grant to abandon his supply lines to rush and encircle Vicksburg. Sherman said about him that he himself might have been superior as a strategist, but couldn’t touch his pure nerve.
I am currently reading U.S. Grant’s Memoirs-a fascinating look into the brilliant mind of a brilliant general.