When the siege of Vicksburg began, the battle was literally brought to the front doors of residents’ homes. Mortars fell, ...

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

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 ...

They’ll ask me whether there were any Hispanic or Native American people in the Civil War. I’m researching trying to keep one step ahead of them and then I think, ‘Sure enough. I have a book ...

Preparation is underway in the city of Vicksburg as the Mississippi river continues to rise.The state of emergency was issued earlier this month as water from Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee head ...

With nothing planned at Locust Hill African Cemetery for the 160th anniversary of the end to the Civil War, not that such a milestone needs excessive acknowledgment, a woman friend brought her two ...

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 ...

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VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – Vicksburg residents are emergency officials are preparing for flooding from the Mississippi River. In early April, Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs, Jr., declared a ...

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