The Siege of Vicksburg took place in mid May 1863. Vicksburg's 200-foot-high cliffs and deep gorges made the raid difficult. David Farragut, the Confederate admiral, had trouble reaching his guns to the city above. Grant’s idea idea was to starve the city so they would surrender. Grant kept cutting off their supply lines and soldiers and residents were running out of food. 30,000 troops were trapped in Vicksburg, and they said, “Feed us, or we will mutiny.” Another woman wrote, “We are utterly cut off from the world, surrounded by a circle of fire.” The Confederates surrendered on July 4. Grant explained that, “The fate of the Confederacy was sealed when Vicksburg fell.”
