It was the one of the earliest farming settlements ever found.
Answer:
Grant initially planned a two-pronged approach in which half of his army, under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, would advance to the Yazoo River and attempt to reach Vicksburg from the northeast, while Grant took the remainder of the army down the Mississippi Central Railroad.
Explanation:
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Kids probably needed to work the farm and tend to the livestock, etc. War has a nasty way of disrupting normal life.
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