As I recalled from eighth-grade American History, the Siege of Vicksburg—a hellish, 47-day Union assault on the heavily ...
Kathie Sills served as guest speaker for the Kiwanis Club of Vicksburg’s Sept. 10 meeting. Sills explained to members how ...
Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. This column gives insight ...
What started out as just dots bobbing on the Mississippi River slowly came into focus Saturday afternoon as three kayakers ...
A Vicious Siege on Vicksburg Marching through Mississippi, Ulysses S. Grant focused his efforts on the city of Vicksburg. Surrounding and firing upon the city for weeks on end, he forced its ...
When our sons joined the same Boy Scout troop some years ago, my oldest brother and I got in the habit of adventuring close to home. The troop’s weekend field ...
Numerous sites bear witness to its history and allow us to connect with the past. Some obvious and unmissable ones are the battlefields in Gettysburg, PA, Vicksburg, MS, and Manassas, VA. Another ...
The young Grant accompanied his father to the Vicksburg battlefields. The younger Grant was shot, not seriously, and saw other wounded men in a hospital. “The scenes were so terrible,’’ he ...
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — News Channel 3 Football Fever kicks off the 2024 season with week one - covering all things high school football. Below are the scores for Thursday night football. Home teams ...
Grant’s first great battle was at Shiloh in 1862 ... Grant’s next great victory came in 1863 at Vicksburg, a place he surrounded by taking the risk of moving his troops down the west side of the ...
A group of six Mississippi hunters harvested a 800-plus pound, 14-foot alligator from the Yazoo River on opening day. The gator fell just short of the state length and girth records, but it's still ...