This Congressional Gold Medal was awarded on December 17, 1863 to General Grant after his victory at Vicksburg. The battle of ...

In December, the Vicksburg National Military Park (VNMP) and the Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign ...

While we’re still in the spooky season, it wouldn’t be right if we didn’t have a ghost story or two. Some strange things were ...

This year’s Veterans Day Parade Grand Marshal will be Vicksburg resident Master Sgt. (Ret.) Tommy Tribble, who served in the ...

Tommy Tribble, serving in the military had just been “his job.” It was a job that began when he was first deployed in 1945 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - An architectural firm has been brought on to draw up plans for a new Civil War interpretive center in ...

An ironclad ship, it was only in service for one month -- participating in the Battle of Vicksburg -- before it was scuttled. Another Arkansas, a steamer ship built in Philadelphia in 1863, sailed ...

After the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863), taken in conjunction with Grant’s capture of Vicksburg on ...

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and the state of Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and twenty-two to the Union. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and ...

This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg ... This extended episode then chronicles the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the ...

An alderman in the city of Vicksburg has died. Alderman Michael Mayfield, Sr. passed away Monday night. According to his son, this was Mayfield’s second battle with cancer. He was 65.