Even after a grueling forty-seven-day Siege at Vicksburg, Ulysses S.
Historian Jim W.
After a weeklong Siege under a hot Mississippi sun, Johnston s army abandoned the city, leaving the fate of Jackson in the hands of Sherman s troops.
General William Tecumseh Sherman countered by marching Union troops to Jackson.
Johnston and the Army of Relief still posed a threat to Grant s hard-won victory.
Just fifty miles away in Jackson, Confederate general Joseph E.
Grant could not rest on his laurels.
Even after a grueling forty-seven-day Siege at Vicksburg, Ulysses S