The Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign will announce a transformational multimillion-dollar private ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, and its capture gave the Union control over the waterway, splitting the Confederacy in two. The Union victory at Vicksburg ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

Vicksburg National Military Park covers 1,815 acres, and is about a 45-mile drive west from Jackson. The park “commemorates one of the most decisive campaigns of the Civil War, the 1863 Siege of ...

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 ...

Strange artifact at Civil War battlefield is skin from alligator that attacked a soldier during the battle over Vicksburg, Mississippi, National Park says.