Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi is receiving over $5 million toward restoring a key Civil War monument and removing a building that previously was used as a visitors’ center.

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

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” ...

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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.

An actual number has never been firmed up. It’s estimated that around 620,000 men were killed. In 2011, historian J. David ...

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

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 ...