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Old Post Files is a regular feature within the pages of The Vicksburg Post’s print edition and digital e-edition. This ...
A silent witness to most of Vicksburg’s 200-year history is in serious danger of extinction. It is the house at 1414 Grove ...
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A new Civil War Museum is coming to the city of Vicksburg in 2028. Planning and designing are underway for Vicksburg’s newest tourist attraction, an interpretive center.
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 ...
Military records reveal that women fought—and died—in all the major battles of the Civil War, participating in clashes in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Vicksburg ...
History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...
Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite ... She was on guided-missile cruisers USS Vella Gulf, USS San Jacinto and USS Vicksburg before taking command of Old Ironsides.
The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg is essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War, and a fine finish to Smith’s multivolume treatment of the struggle for Vicksburg.
Years later, in 1869, Grant became a U.S. president like his former Commander-in-Chief Lincoln had done, setting a precedent ...
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... and the state of Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and twenty-two to the Union.