Engineers in Union blue and Confederate gray played a prominent role in the Vicksburg campaigns of 1862-1863. Although their contributions have largely gone unnoticed in published works on the ...
Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...
Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...
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 ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Following are excerpts taken directly from the Harrisburg Patriot & Union newspaper of 150 years ago. The Democratic newspaper was no fan of President Lincoln or abolition, which offers ...
Before William Tecumseh Sherman's famous Civil War march to the sea in Georgia, the Union general joined Gen. Ulysses Grant's siege of Vicksburg, a series of battles that effectively severed the ...
ZUMBROTA — Ulysses S. Grant became was a hero of the Civil War and two-term president of the United States, and much of that stemmed from his victory in July 1863 at Vicksburg. That victory, along ...
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded a $2.5 million grant to the Foundation for Mississippi History to support and promote Mississippi Department of Archives and History programs, activities, and projects ...
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida compared himself to Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Speaking with the AP, Scott attempted to draw a parallel to his clashes with GOP lawmakers. Scott recently ...
Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded a $2.5 million grant to the Foundation for Mississippi History to support and promote ...
SCHOOLCRAFT -- A jubilant Cheri Lutz, village manager for Schoolcraft, announced at the June 20 council meeting that the Vicksburg Foundation approved a grant request for $20,000 to help with repairs ...
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