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Vicksburg Campaign
Vicksburg Campaign (November 1862–July 1863) A military campaign in the
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. By the autumn of 1862 the stronghold of the
CONFEDERACY forces at Vicksburg in western Mississippi was the last remaining obstacle to Union (Northern) control of the Mississippi River. In late 1862 advances by Generals
GRANT and
SHERMAN failed to capture the city. In May 1863 Grant started a siege of the city. After six weeks of resistance, Vicksburg surrendered on 4 July. With its capture, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. The Union success at Vicksburg and
GETTYSBURG in July 1863 marked a major turning-point in the Civil War.
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Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy...ISBN 978-0-7425-4868-8.) In Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy...Waldrep explores Civil War commemoration in Vicksburg, Mississippi, between the 1862-1863...
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Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River.(The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi...8032-4254-9.) The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle. By Allan C...Civil War has pointed to the battle of Vicksburg as one of the major turning points in...
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Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River/The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi...8032-4254-9.) The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle. By Allan C...Civil War has pointed to the battle of Vicksburg as one of the major turning points in...
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Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy...ISBN 978-0-7425-4868-8.) In Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy...Waldrep explores Civil War commemoration in Vicksburg, Mississippi, between the 1862-1863...
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USS VICKSBURG RETURNS FROM GULF
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/25/2008; 660 words
; ...press release: By Ensign Drew PerciballiUSS Vicksburg Public Affairs USS Vicksburg (CG 69) and Helicopter Anti-Submarine Light...Jan. 25. Over the course of her deployment, Vicksburg served as air defense commander for the Kearsarge...
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Major player in Vicksburg gambling hasn't filed papers: city offered Casino Mississippi the best location, but nothing has been signed.
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 9/28/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...contenders looking to set up shop in Vicksburg. Three companies have filed notices...narrowly passed the gambling referendum, Vicksburg officials and private landowners were...gaming licenses in Warren County were Vicksburg-based Delta Point Inc., Mississippi...
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Battle over Vicksburg convention center continues: Warren County residents question equity of latest action. (Focus: Hotels and Convention Centers)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 3/9/1992; ; 700+ words
; Vicksburg is turning away conventions--sometimes...Lenore Barkley, executive director of Vicksburg Tourist and Convention Bureau, "because...referendum and the tax to the city of Vicksburg. Vicksburg residents gave the go ahead...
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Vicksburg Views, Past & Present; Recalling the Tragedies Of the Civil War Against A Riverfront Backdrop
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/16/1989; ; 700+ words
; To the North in 1863, Vicksburg marked a major Civil War triumph for...the little Mississippi River port of Vicksburg, Miss.-a city with deep Southern...well as military is made clear at Vicksburg. Only Petersburg in Virginia, among...
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HISTORY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?: Vicksburg Campaign offers history lessons, tourism dollars
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Business Journal; 4/30/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...in Mississippi - its eyes trained on Vicksburg. Moving northeast then west, Grant...operation lasting a month and half before Vicksburg fell on July 4, 1863. It was arguably...communities - Port Gibson, Raymond, Bolton, Vicksburg. It would take years for those communities...
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'Foreign' dollars fund success at Vicksburg Factory
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Business Journal; 3/26/2001; ; 700+ words
; VICKSBURG - It was a fairly typical Friday for...Simmons, owner of The Collage, located in Vicksburg Factory Outlets. Offering home decorating...statements on the importance of tourism to Vicksburg Factory Outlets surprises Margaret Gilmer...
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Vicksburg, Siege of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Vicksburg, Siege of (1862–63).During the Civil War, Vicksburg, a port city above the Mississippi River at the...siege of New Orleans and the fall of Memphis, Vicksburg quickly became the only bastion on the Mississippi...
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Vicksburg campaign
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vicksburg campaign in the American Civil War...spring of 1862, but an attempt to take Vicksburg, Miss., by water failed (May-June...river between Port Hudson, La., and Vicksburg. Early in Nov., 1862, Gen. Ulysses...
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Vicksburg in the Civil War
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
VICKSBURG IN THE CIVIL WAR VICKSBURG IN THE CIVIL WAR. With the fall of New Orleans to Union forces in April 1862, the importance of Vicksburg, Miss., for control of the Mississippi River became evident...
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Vicksburg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vicksburg city (1990 pop. 20,908), seat of...petroleum refining and food processing; Vicksburg's many manufactures include asphalt...came into U.S. possession in 1798. Vicksburg became a busy river port, and in the...
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Vicksburg Riots
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
VICKSBURG RIOTS VICKSBURG RIOTS. The Vicksburg riots were civil disorders in Vicksburg, Mississippi, that began on 7 December 1874. Other such incidents also occurred in the latter part of the Reconstruction period, after President Ulysses...
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