The Mississippi River town of Vicksburg is holding several events this week to mark the 150th anniversary of its siege during the Civil War.Concerts, lectures and wreath-laying ceremonies are planned ...
Main Street volunteers are hanging photographs of the city's past in windows of vacant buildings, and offering them to store owners as part of the 150th anniversary of the Siege of Vicksburg.The ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Garry Adelman of the American Battlefield Trust described the motivations and events that occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg and the ...
YAHOO.COM - A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city ...
Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2021. Pp. xxviii, 724. Illus., maps, appends., gloss., notes, index. $45.00. ISBN: 0700632255 Vicksburg Besieged While Grant’s ...
Ghost Adventures investigate what some say is the most haunted city in the South, Vicksburg This week Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures crew are called in by the mayor of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to ...
The reenactments will take place on Monday at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. and 1, 2, and 3 p.m. In the sweltering Mississippi heat and humidity on Sunday, a group of men in blue wool uniforms stood on a hill in ...
As siege operations began, Capt. Frederick Prime, the Army of the Tennessee's chief engineer, had his concerns. Besides himself, Lt. Peter C. Haines, chief engineer of McClernand's XIII Corps, was the ...