The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

A Civil War battlefield will use public and private money to restore a monument and remove a building that once housed a visitors' center.

13. Battle of Vicksburg > Total forces engaged: 110,000 (Union: 93,921) ... March 1864, a month that saw three major Civil War battles with more than 100,000 engaged forces, ...

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

The Friends of the Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign wasted no time beginning work to restore a “historic” ...

The new cyclorama, representing the assault upon Vicksburg, May 23. 1863, by the forces of Grant in co-operation with the fleet of gunboats under Porter, was exhibited to invited guests at the ...

A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black ... Vicksburg National Cemetery holds over 18,000 graves. ... “But none of the battles like we are learning now.

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

Ulysses S. Grant was considered a washed-up veteran of the Mexican War, but his succession of victories along the Mississippi River and the end of the siege of Vicksburg elevated Grant to commander of ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through ...