Mississippi is a state with an abundance of military history, especially in Central Mississippi. Many of the area’s most ...

Old Post Files is a regular feature within the pages of The Vicksburg Post’s print edition and digital e-edition. This ...

“Vicksburg is an old city with an outsize role in Mississippi’s history,” Foreman said. “Everyone knows about its significance in the Civil War, but we wanted to go beyond that well-documented chapter ...

Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War ... Mississippi, and it was further subdivided into departments. Ord took command of the district, with his headquarters at Vicksburg ...

More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...

After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South ... was shot down,” someone wrote from Vicksburg, Mississippi. Bruce’s correspondence, which ...

On November 2, he begins a campaign with Vicksburg, Mississippi as its objective ... in gold the greenback currency issued during the Civil War. Grant thus quickly places himself with the ...

Most of the passengers were Union soldiers returning from the Civil War or from Confederate prison camps ... that 1,800 of the passengers died as the boat burned and sank into the Mississippi River.