What was Ulysses Grant's goal at Vicksburg? to starve the city into submission and gain control of the Mississippi River to hold his position outside the city until reinforcements could arrive to reduce the size of the Confederate forces by killing as many soldiers as possible to show Abraham Lincoln that Grant should become commander of the Union army
One of Grant's main goals at the Battle of Vicksburg was "to starve the city into submission and gain control of the Mississippi River," since control of the Mississippi River would have been a huge blow to the Union forces.
