Question

How did Union forces eventually defeat Vicksburg?

Answer 1

By encompassing Vicksburg and setting onslaught to the protected city driving the Confederate troops protecting the city to capitulate.

Multiple efforts to capture Vicksburg baffled. Strikes from the north were rejected. US Grant advanced his flocks south of Vicksburg on the reverse side of the Mississippi River. Then the North Navy made a courageous run through the rifles of the fortress with the transportation that would transport Grant's troops crossed the stream to attack Vicksburg from the eastwards and southwards.

Answer 2

US Grant marched his troops south of Vicksburg on the opposite side of the Mississippi River. ... In a brilliant campaign Grant defeated the Confederate forcesoutside of Vicksburg allowing him to surround Vicksburg.