True, the Yankees under Grant had been besieging Vicksburg since the middle of May.

不错，格兰特率领下的北方佬军队五月中以来一直在围攻维克斯堡。

But now they could give little thought to Vicksburg.

但是现在，他们已来不及考虑维克斯堡。

Vicksburg's loss would be no catastrophe if Lee won in the East.

只要李将军在东边打了胜仗，维克斯堡的陷落就不是太大的灾难了。

He lost his brother at the Battle of Vicksburg.

他哥哥在维克斯堡战役中牺牲了。

He also wanted to prevent the soldiers in Jackson from joining the soldiers in Vicksburg.

他还想阻止驻派在杰克逊的士兵与维克斯堡的士兵联手。

The members of the modest Legation in Portland Place accepted it as Grant had accepted the capitulation of Vicksburg.

波特兰广场谦虚的公使馆成员接受了它，就像格兰特接受了维克斯堡的投降一样。

When Sarah was seven years old, her parents died of the disease yellow fever. She and her sister moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

萨拉七岁时，她的父母死于黄热病。她和姐姐搬到了密西西比州的维克斯堡。

Day and night, Union forces shelled Vicksburg.

联盟部队日夜炮击维克斯堡。

Jackson was the supply base for the Confederate army defending Vicksburg. Grant wanted to cut the supply lines between the two cities.

杰克逊是保卫维克斯堡的联盟国士兵的补给基地，格兰特想切断这两座城市之间的供应线。

Rosecrans was a great military tactician; some  historians rank his Tullahoma Campaign as on par with Grant's Vicksburg and Gettysburg victories.

罗斯克兰斯是一位伟大的军事战术家。一些历史学家将他的图拉霍马战役与格兰特在维克斯堡和葛底斯堡的胜利相提并论。

He decided to march most of his men down the west side of the river to a steamboat landing thirty kilometers below Vicksburg.

他决定带领大部分部队，沿着河的西岸走到维克斯堡下方30公里处的一艘汽船上。

The Union was  on the march to win the Civil War quickly, and they had already taken Vicksburg and  Chattanooga.

联盟正在迅速赢得内战，他们已经占领了维克斯堡和查塔努加。

He had already won important victories, such as the Battle of Vicksburg, which gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

他已经赢得了重要的胜利，例如维克斯堡战役， 使联邦控制了密西西比河。

In a letter to his wife, a Confederate soldier wrote, news reached here that Vicksburg has gone up the spout.

一名南方邦联士兵在给他妻子的一封信中写道，这里传来了维克斯堡已经水泄不通的消息。

What he did, you know, his executive orders on Jewish kind of schmattas collectors down in Vicksburg, where Lincoln makes him reverse.

他所做的，你知道，他对维克斯堡的犹太类施玛塔收藏家发出了行政命令，林肯在那里让他推翻了。

Union General Ulysses Grant had been trying to seize Vicksburg for several months. It was not easy. Vicksburg lay on the east side of the Mississippi River.

尤利西斯·格兰特将军数月来一直试图占领维克斯堡。这不是一件易事。维克斯堡位于密西西比河的东岸。

The victory at Vicksburg went to General Ulysses Grant. He was named commander of all Union armies in the west. Then he was sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

维克斯堡战役的胜利归功于尤利西斯·格兰特将军，他接受委任成为西部联邦军所有部队的指挥官。随后，他被派往田纳西州的查塔努加。

Grant agreed to let the Confederate soldiers go home. He and Pemberton signed the surrender agreement on July fourth. The siege of Vicksburg had lasted forty-seven days.

格兰特同意让联盟国士兵回家，他和彭伯顿于7月4日签署投降协议。维克斯堡的围攻持续了47天。

By 1863, Confederate forces at Vicksburg were still in control of the Lower Mississippi River, which is why President Lincoln told his advisors, Vicksburg is the key.

到 1863 年，维克斯堡的同盟军仍然控制着密西西比河下游，这就是为什么林肯总统告诉他的顾问们，维克斯堡是关键。

Although the war dragged on for another 20 months, the federal victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg marked the turning point of this bloody conflict.

尽管战争又拖了 20 个月，但联邦在葛底斯堡和维克斯堡的胜利标志着这场血腥冲突的转折点。