As the 150th anniversary of Vicksburg's surrender to Union forces in the Civil War arrives Thursday, people remember the thousands of lives lost in the battle.A total of 19,233 candlers filled the ...
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xx, 48. Illus., maps, appends, notes, index. $34.95. ISBN: 0700629068 Grant Attempts to Storm Vicksburg Timothy B. Smith’s latest book describes the ...
July 1863 could easily be called the month that won the Civil War. Three vital battles were fought or ended that month and the results were enormous for the country. At Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July ...
Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2021. Pp. xxviii, 724. Illus., maps, appends., gloss., notes, index. $45.00. ISBN: 0700632255 Vicksburg Besieged While Grant’s ...
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 ...
Foreword: American icon -- Introduction: Trinity and tide -- 1: Richmond and the river -- 2: Series of experiments -- 3: War has responsibilities -- 4: What will the country say? -- 5: To the railroad ...
On July 3, 1863, Gen. George Pickett’s famous charge crested and broke at the Battle of Gettysburg—a moment that tradition would name the “High Water Mark of the Confederacy.” At almost the same hour, ...
This year’s July 4th celebrations will be different than years past as our country continues to battle through the COVID-19 pandemic. There are some lessons we can learn if we look back to July 4, ...
This piece of leather may be from an alligator that attacked a soldier during the Civil War, according to Vicksburg National Battlefield Park in Mississippi. National Park Service photo War artifacts ...
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