One such story revisits the notorious “Vicksburg Gamblers,” a group of rowdy card players who disrupted a Fourth of July ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - An architectural firm has been brought on to draw up plans for a new Civil War interpretive center in Vicksburg. Last month, the Mississippi Department of Archives and ...

The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1863, proved a crucial turning point of the Civil War, although it took Union forces nearly seven months to capture the city. Dr. Chris Mackowski, ...

(WLBT) - A new Civil War ... for Vicksburg’s newest tourist attraction, an interpretive center. “The Vicksburg Military Park is the most visited cultural site in the state of Mississippi.

Long and flat, and with breathtaking views, the Delta stretches 200 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, down to Vicksburg, Mississippi ... after the Civil War, the state became among the most ...