Chickasaw Bayou Campaign

This study investigates the decisive factors that affected the Chickasaw Bayou Campaign, General Ulysses S. Grant’s first effort to seize Vicksburg. By December 1862 Grant’s forces had fought into north central Mississippi. Simultaneously, Major General John A. McClernand had convinced President Lincoln to allow him to command an independent amphibious force to operate on the Mississippi against Vicksburg. Grant hastily organized his own river expedition under Major General William T. Sherman to