Vicksburg National Military Park
June 2, 2011 0
VICKSBURG, Miss. — War is never easy, but residents of this busy river town perched on the bluffs of the Mississippi River were especially miserable when on July 4, 1863, the 47-day siege ordered by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ended with the Confederate Army’s surrender. Cut off from supplies and shell-shocked by a steady […]