The screenplay for the sequel was written by Eric Roth in 2001. It is based on the original novel's sequel, Gump and Co. written by Winston Groom in 1995. Roth's script begins with Forrest sitting on a bench waiting for his son to return from school.
The battle of Vicksburg was important because secured the control of the whole Mississippi River to the Union, split into two parts the Confederacy and eliminated a Confederatâ¦e Army and its weapons. The great Union leader who emerged was Ulysses S. Grant.
The North won three of the most important battles of the Civil War in 1863. Two of these Union victories occurred in early July in Gettysburg, Pa., and, after a long siege, in Vicksburg, Miss. In the fall the third crucial engagement was staged in the area around Chattanooga, Tenn. The campaign began on Sept. 19, 1863.