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Vicksburg : Grant's campaign that broke the Confederacy / Donald L. Miller

Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...
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Book Review: Fred Grant at Vicksburg: A Boy’s Memoir at His Father’s Side During the American Civil War

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 ...
Billings Gazette

Walking in the footsteps of warriors

VICKSBURG, Miss. - Peace and beauty rule where thousands of Union and Confederate troops once confronted each other in a deadly standoff. The Vicksburg National Military Park runs through rolling ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Iowans return to Vicksburg to honor Civil War dead

DES MOINES --- One hundred and fifty years ago today, scores of Iowans serving in the Union Army were dug in, laying siege to the Mississippi town of Vicksburg. Two assaults, one on May 19, 1863, and ...