November 1862 Union Gen. Ulysses Grant, in Tennessee, prepares his first overland campaign against Vicksburg. Gen. Ulysses Grant occupies La Grange and Grand Junction, TN, in preparation for his first overland campaign on Vicksburg. Gen. Grant's forces skirmish at Jumpertown.
Action is concentrated in the northernmost counties.
Gen. Grant loses his supply line as a result of Confederate cavalary raids and thus abandons his campaign against Vicksburg. In a Federal expedition up the Yazoo River the ironclad USS Cairo becomes the first Union vessel sunk by torpedo. Gen. Ulysses Grant's campaign against Vicksburg is formally organized with the XV Corps under Maj. Gen. William Sherman, XVII Corps under Maj. Gen. Jame s McPherson, and XIII Corps under Maj.