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/ˈvɪksbɝɡ/
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- a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves
- a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered
How To Use Vicksburg In A Sentence
- He was his own worst enemy and his rash violation of Grant's departmental regulations caused his removal from command of his corps shortly before the fall of Vicksburg.
- Mexico, and Hanchett, at that time a resident of Vicksburg, and laboring in a profession -- the saltatorial, to wit -- a shade less illustrious than that to which he was so soon to attain, was the first man in the city to enlist. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
- Having the high rank of lieutenant general, there was no command for him after Vicksburg, so he resigned his lieutenant generalcy to accept an appointment as a colonel in the artillery division.
- Jefferson Davis countermanded his order for the evacuation of Vicksburg, and, as he had feared, he proved unable to relieve the city.
- Lincoln reviewed recent riotous incidents, beginning with the Vicksburg gamblers, moving to Madison County's purported slave insurrection, and ending with McIntosh's grisly death.
- In the American civil war the sieges of Vicksburg and Petersburg saw trench warfare on a localized scale, and the same was true of the siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese war.
- At stops in Vicksburg, Greenville or Stovepipe Bend, Sam serves as a different kind of floorwalker, trying to keep order among the raucous, 500-plus crowds smelling of sweat and Sen-Sen and armed with knives or moonshine or both. An Adventure Tale Haunted by Loss
- Jackson and; lack of equipment; advantages; conscription; munitions; relations with Federals at Vicksburg; Army of Northern Virginia; unrenewable wastage; number of troops (1865); Lee's farewell to Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
- Floodwaters invade the center of historic Vicksburg, Mississippi, where a famous Civil War battle took place. The town has suffered record flooding this spring.
- Many of the hills of Warren County, in which Vicksburg is situated, are composed of a curious soft limy clay, called marl, which, normally, has not the solidity of soft chalk. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
