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	Vicksburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)
		Vicksburg National Military Park commemorates the campaign, siege and defense of Vicksburg.
		Vicksburg was a fortress located on high ground guarding the Mississippi River.
		The Vicksburg battlefield includes 1,330 monuments and markers, a 16 mile tour road, a restored Union gunboat, and a National Cemetery.
	www.nps.gov /vick (226 words)

	Vicksburg, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Civil War, Vicksburg was the site of the Battle of Vicksburg, an important battle in which the Union defeated the Confederacy and gained control of the entire Mississippi River.
		The battle, also known as the Siege of Vicksburg, consisted of a long siege brought about by the fact that the city is located on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and thus was largely impregnable to invaders.
		Vicksburg served as the primary refugee gathering point and temporary housing during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 which submerged an area of the Mississippi Delta nearly the size of New England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vicksburg,_Mississippi (923 words)

	MSN Encarta - Battle of Vicksburg
		Vicksburg, Campaign of, major siege of the American Civil War, consisting of military campaigns in 1862 and 1863 that ended with the capture of the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Union troops on July 4, 1863.
		Vicksburg, perched on a steep bluff along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, was one of the main Southern strongholds along the river.
		Meanwhile, an army under Union General William T. Sherman was to be convoyed downriver by a fleet commanded by the Union naval officer David D. Porter; Sherman would then seize the city in the absence of a majority of its defenders.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563246/Battle_of_Vicksburg.html (731 words)

	Encyclopedia: Siege of Vicksburg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Vicksburg was an American Civil War siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on a well-fortified west-facing cliff on the Mississippi River.
		The siege lasted from May 18 -- July 4, 1863.
		The siege was initiated by the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant with the aim of gaining control of the Mississippi River by capturing this Confederate riverfront stronghold and defeating John C. Pemberton's forces stationed there.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Siege-of-Vicksburg (267 words)

	Vicksburg Campaign
		In the north, Sherman's corps was in position opposite the Confederate left, extending from the river (at the present location of the national cemetery) to Graveyard Road.
		All but two of his division and brigade commanders were unanimous in their replies that siege conditions had physically distressed so large a number of the defending army that an attempt to cut through the Union lines would be disastrous.
		The surrender of Vicksburg and the simultaneous repulse of Lee's northern invasion at the Battle of Gettysburg marked the beginning of the end for the Southern Confederacy.
	www.us-civilwar.com /vicksburg.htm (3208 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Vicksburg
		For the civilian population of Vicksburg, the siege was a grim and harrowing experience.
		Vicksburg had been subjected to periodic naval bombardment during the year of preliminary action and continuously during the siege.
		In the latter stages of the siege the food stores of the city were badly depleted, placing the people of Vicksburg on extremely short rations.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/21/hh21d5.htm (249 words)

	The Vicksburg Campaign May 1863 American Civil War Maps
		The siege cut off all supplies going into the city and the constant hammering of siege artillery drove many of the citizens into caves dug into the hillsides.
		The siege of Vicksburg began with the repulse of the 22 May assault and lasted until 4 July 1 863.
		As the siege progressed, Pemberton's 20,000-man garrison was reduced by disease and starvation, and the city's residents were forced to seek the refuge of caves and bombproofs in the surrounding hillsides, Hunger and daily bombardments by Grant's forces and Porter's gunboats compelled Pemberton to ask for surrender terms 3 July.
	www.americancivilwar.com /vicks.html (1410 words)

	Vicksburg Victorious
		Vicksburg earned its place in American history during the Civil War when a desperate struggle to control the city took place.
		Civil War buffs will also want to visit other Vicksburg attractions like the Gray and Blue Naval Museum, with the world's largest collection of Civil War gunboat models, and The Vanishing Glory, a 30-minute film on the Siege of Vicksburg based on the diaries and letters of the citizens and soldiers who were there.
		Another must-do in Vicksburg is the Cedar Grove Mansion and Inn, an 1840 Greek Revival masterpiece overlooking the Mississippi River on four acres.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/February05/1276VicksburgVictorious.htm (850 words)

	Search Results for "Vicksburg"
		Vicksburg campaign, in the American Civil War, the fighting (Nov., 1862-July, 1863) for control of the Mississippi River.
		Vicksburg (3 sq mi/7.8 sq km), National Military Park, Warren co., W Miss., 2 mi/3.2 km N and E of downtown Vicksburg.
		VICKSBURG was important to the enemy because it occupied the first high ground coming close to the river below Memphis.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?query=Vicksburg&db=db&cmd=context&id=38d481aa1f1 (306 words)

	Battle of Vicksburg
		Meanwhile General Grant had arranged his army into four corps, and with it descended the river from Memphis to prosecute the siege of Vicksburg with vigor.
		Then the victorious army turned westward towards Vicksburg, and, after two successful battles, swept on and closely invested the strongly fortified city in the rear (May 19), receiving their supplies from a base on the Yazoo established by Porter.
		Porter, with his fleet of gunboats, was lying in the Mississippi, above Vicksburg, and was preparing the way for a successful siege, which Grant began with Sherman on the right, McPherson in the centre, and McClernand on the left.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/siege-vicksburg.htm (1281 words)

	Vicksburg During The Siege
		On the 18th he received a dispatch from Pemberton, at Vicksburg, announcing his retreat into the entrenchments, and adding that the order of evacuation had been submitted to a council of war, and while it was holding the enemy's guns opened.
		Early in the siege, when some of the men complained of the scanty ration, General M. Smith, I believe, who had seen the thing done on the Plains, issued a circular to his brigades, recommending that the experiment of horse meat be tried to piece out supplies.
		Just prior to the siege the alphabet of the Federal Signal Corps was communicated to Captain Maxwell T. Davidson, the very valuable officer in command of the Signal Corps of M. Smith's Division, from the Bureau at Richmond, and was required to be committed to memory by his men.
	www.civilwarhome.com /insidevicksburg.htm (8693 words)

	Vicksburg During the Civil War: A Campaign, A Siege (1862-1863)
		It was during this 47-day siege that the citizens of Vicksburg, while the city was under steady shelling, were forced to live in caves.
		The surrender of Vicksburg, to Union forces on July 4, 1863, indicated the beginning of the end of the Confederacy.
		The teacher will ask students to speculate as to what life was like for the citizens of Vicksburg that were trapped in their city as it was under siege.
	teacherexchange.mde.k12.ms.us /MHNLP/vicksburglp.htm (943 words)

	The Children of Vicksburg
		The siege of the city of Vicksburg for all intents and purposes began on May 18, 1863 and lasted for 47 days, culminating in the surrender of the city on July 4, 1863.
		Young Lucy McRae, daughter of a well-to-do Vicksburg merchant chronicled the beginning of the siege in the town: “One bright afternoon, men, women and children could be seen seeking the hill-tops with spyglasses, as from the heights could be seen a fl object slowly approaching along the river.
		Experiencing the siege at Vicksburg caused the children of the town to grow up faster than they should have, as is obvious from Lucy's matter-of-fact description of adapting to the shelling.
	www.civilwarinteractive.com /ArticleChildrenofVicksburg.htm (2494 words)

	Siege of Vicksburg
		Following the failure of the May 22 assault, Grant realized that Vicksburg could not be taken by storm and decided to lay siege to the city.
		Along the Jackson Road, a mine was detonated beneath the Third Louisiana Redan on June 25, and Federal soldiers swarmed into the crater attempting to exploit the breach in the city's defenses.
		Throughout the weary month of June the gallant defenders of Vicksburg suffered under the constant bombardment of enemy guns from reduced rations and exposure to the elements.
	www.nps.gov /vick/vcmpgn/siege.htm (340 words)

	The Siege of Vicksburg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Instead of moving on from Vicksburg as we had planned, we stayed on for four days, spending the whole time in the Park filming what we saw around us and finding out what we could about the story of the siege.
		We might have stayed even longer but we were finally driven from Vicksburg by violent spring storms which brought in torrential rain and tornadoes, forcing us to retreat southwards to the Gulf coast in search of warmer, sunnier and safer weather.
		We spent a week in Vicksburg this time - a really hard-working week during which a number of "narration to camera" sequences were each filmed at least five or six times over to get them as nearly perfect as possible.
	www.theiac.org.uk /training/mabey.htm (1173 words)

	93rd Illinois Infantry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the 30th, the regiment, and brigade, after moving three miles, took position, facing toward the east, in the rear line around Vicksburg, to aid in the defense against the forces of General Johnston, which were then threatening the rear of the besieging army.
		The Vicksburg campaign was really ended when General Sherman's army returned from Jackson to the west side of the Big Black River, after the second capture of that place.
		The Federal losses at the siege of Vicksburg, from May 19th to July 4th, have been stated, probably correctly, at 545 killed, 3,688 wounded, and 303 captured and missing; making the total loss 4,536.
	www.illinoiscivilwar.org /cw93-hist-ch4c.html (3115 words)

	siege of syracuse and other syracuse related information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And this resolution was never reversed, for during the eight months' siege of the city which followed, although they left no stratagem...
		L'assedio di Siracusa (1962) The Siege of Syracuse/Archimede Cast Rossano Brazzi Sylvia Koschina Tina Louise Director Pietro Francisci Writers Ennio...
		In April 414 BC the Athenians began constructing a siege wall around Syracuse while their fleet blocked the mouth of the harbor.
	www.nethorde.com /syracuse/siege-of-syracuse.html (345 words)

	The Vicksburg Campaign May 1863 American Civil War Maps
		The siege cut off all supplies going into the city and the constant hammering of siege artillery drove many of the citizens into caves dug into the hillsides.
		The siege of Vicksburg began with the repulse of the 22 May assault and lasted until 4 July 1 863.
		As the siege progressed, Pemberton's 20,000-man garrison was reduced by disease and starvation, and the city's residents were forced to seek the refuge of caves and bombproofs in the surrounding hillsides, Hunger and daily bombardments by Grant's forces and Porter's gunboats compelled Pemberton to ask for surrender terms 3 July.
	americancivilwar.com /vicks.html (1410 words)

	The siege of Vicksburg
		Eighty-nine batteries were constructed during the siege, the guns from those in the rear being moved forward as the siege advanced.
		While the investment of Vicksburg was thus proceeding, the menacing attitude of Johnston had early attracted Grant's attention, and made it necessary to establish a strong corps of observation in the rear.
		A favorite place for the meetings was at a well attached to a house between the lines: hither, after dark, the men from both sides repaired, slipping outside their pickets in search of the delicious draught; for water was scarce, and at this point there was none other within a mile.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_III/vicksburg_ef.html (3690 words)

	Vicksburg, Mississippi, Southern Delight
		The siege of 1863 and the loss of the river in 1876, when the Mississippi decided to change its course and bypass the town (a tragedy for a town whose life was tied to the river), were traumatic events that forged the underlying character of the town one sees today.
		Vicksburg’s geologically unexpected, hilly location on high bluffs overlooking a hairpin turn in the old Mississippi River led to her being referred to as "the Gibralter of the Confederacy." Control of Vicksburg meant control of river traffic, thus making her capture one of the top Union objectives.
		The museum’s diorama of the siege of Vicksburg allows visitors to gain an overview of the battle lines and get a real feel for how the battles were fought.
	www.proseandphotos.com /vicksburg,_ms.htm (1281 words)

	Battle of Vicksburg
		The siege was initiated by the Union army under General Ulysses S. Grant with the aim of gaining control of the Mississippi River by capturing this Confederate riverfront stronghold.
		Defending Vicksburg was John C. Pemberton[?], a Pennsylvania Yankee who married South and sided with the Confederacy.
		North and east of Vicksburg was the Yazoo Delta, 200 miles high and as far as fifty wide, a practically impenetrable swamp.
	www.fastload.org /ba/Battle_of_Vicksburg.html (6432 words)

	OHS - Fight for the Colors - Behind the Lines: True Stories of the Ohio Battle Flags (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Before 1863, the southern city of Vicksburg, Mississippi was one of the most strategically important places in the Confederacy.
		Vicksburg connected Confederate supply lines from the west to railroads headed east.
		The key to capturing Vicksburg, Grant reasoned, would be to approach from the south.
	www.ohiohistory.org /etcetera/exhibits/fftc/btlines/index.cfm?section=gallantry&page=3 (523 words)

	Siege of Vicksburg; shelby county ohio historical society
		Some Civil War scholars rate the siege of Vicksburg in the western theater as more significant than the Battle of Gettysburg in the east.
		By the end of June, the residents of Vicksburg were reduced to eating mules, dogs, and rats.
		The surrender of Vicksburg on the same day as the victory at Gettysburg in the east marked a major turning point in the war.
	www.shelbycountyhistory.org /schs/civilwar/siegevicksburg.htm (413 words)

	Widow Blakely - Vicksburg, MS.
		The 8-inch siege howitzer, one smooth-bore 32-pounder, the 20-pounder Parrott, and the Whitworth gun were removed to the rear with their detachments.
		During this long and tedious siege, I am happy to say that the officers and men under my command discharged their duty faithfully and with alacrity.
		During the siege the commanders of garrisons had nothing to do with the ordnance stores further than to see that they were taken care of.
	www.civilwarartillery.com /Vicksburg/widowblakelyRecords.htm (2822 words)

	Civil War Stories
		From May 22 until July 4, 1863 the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi the last Confederate stronghold along the Mississippi River was surrounded, shelled and choked off by the army of Ulysses S. Grant.
		Unlike many earlier battles of the Civil War, where the Union army did not purposely target civilians, the citizens of Vicksburg were at the center of this historic battle.
		Your group's goal is to recreate a scene that depicts experience of the citizen's of Vicksburg during the Union's siege of the city.
	www.guhsd.net /mcdowell/wq/civilwarstories/topics_vicksburg.htm (257 words)

	Mickey Newbury Web Board - Mississippi Travellings- Vicksburg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was surprised at the amount of things that have be given from families from the North that had been absconded by their forefathers.
		Vicksburg, because of the railroad was a very important conquest while just down the river Natchez which had more millionaires than any other city I believe, was left virtually intact and no battles as they weren't important in the war effort.
		Some people we know bought a B&B in Vicksburg and soon after the railroad activated a long dead track and now the trains come by their place every 45 minutes and blow their whistles as they cross the streets.
	www.mickeynewbury.com /board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3375 (581 words)

	Vicksburg Campaign II - 2001 Re-enactment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Vicksburg Campaign II, a national scale reenactment, promises to surpass the 1998 Vicksburg Campaign.
		The 1998 Reenactment of the Battle of Raymond, the Battle of Jackson, and the battle of Champion Hill proved to be one of the most brilliant series of events ever held in the Town of Raymond.
		As was the case in 1998, a committee of state, county, and local officials; property owners, community leaders, battlefield preservationists, historians and reenactors are planning this project.
	www.raymondms.com /2001.htm (879 words)

	The Siege of Vicksburg
		Short description of the events leading to the surrender of Vicksburg plus a map as of July 3, 1863.
		Just a great description of what it was like inside the city during the siege.
		Presents the organization of the Confederate forces at Vicksburg under Pemberton.
	www.civilwarhome.com /siegeofvicksburg.htm (86 words)

	Battle of vicksburg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Battle of Vicksburg and Helena These letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers.
		Battle Of Vicksburg The Battle of Gettysburg combined with the fall of Vicksburg signaled the turning point of the Civil War.
		Parker's wounds received at the battle of Vicksburg which may have played a roll in his problems with the Army: PA Willis, Surgeon of the 48th OVI, and Wm.
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