This Congressional Gold Medal was awarded on December 17, 1863 to General Grant after his victory at Vicksburg. The battle of Vicksburg was a turning point for the Union Army. The siege lasted six ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (WLBT) - Two of three suspects wanted in connection with a violent assault against a woman in Vicksburg have ...

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 ...

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

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

Located in the heart of Vicksburg, the house is a accumulation of several owners ... who died in the home the same year ...

The Turkey Dinner at Crawford Street United Methodist Church has become an expected and much-anticipated event by many people ...

Vicksburg’s downtown Rose Garden served as the site for the 2024 Veterans Day service that immediately followed the Parade of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.