Civil War The Untold Story: River of Death ( Chapter 3), 2014

Episode Three River of Death January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln declares more than 3 million slaves in rebelling states forever The Emancipation Proclamation changes the war from one of reunification to one of ending slavery, and gives African Americans freedom to 1863, Ulysses S. Grant targets Vicksburg, Mississippi still controlled by the Confederates. .. July 4, 1863, the Confederates surrender Vicksburg to Grant. .. The Western Campaign moves eastward to a rail center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. .. Along the Chickamauga, a creek the Cherokee call the river of death, Union and Confederate forces clash in the biggest battle of the Western Campaign.