(A) ** Vicksburg
(B) Antietam
(C) Shiloh
(D) Sherman’s March to the Sea
(E) First Bull Run
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -After a series of battles, Grant’s troops forced General Pemberton’s Confederate army to retreat into the defenses surrounding Vicksburg. Vicksburg was well defended with rifle pits and fortifications as well as steep ravines that made it easy for Confederate forces to beat back Union assaults.
Concept note-2: -The 47-day Siege of Vicksburg eventually gave control of the Mississippi River-a critical supply line-to the Union, and was part of the Union’s successful Anaconda Plan to cut off all trade to the Confederacy.
Concept note-3: -The Union forces had nearly forty thousand men and greatly outnumbered the Confederates. In the first few weeks of May 1863, Pemberton lost nearly one-half of his forty thousand men to Grant’s army. By the third week of May 1863, the Union troops had driven the Confederates into Vicksburg.