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

Prof. Clampitt (East Central University), the author of The Confederate Heartland, examines events in wartime Vicksburg following the surrender of 30,000 Confederate troops to U.S. Grant on July 4, ...

and at Vicksburg, where Grant's attempts to take the city by siege are stopped. During the episode we learn of fierce northern opposition to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the miseries of ...

Here’s how to spend a weekend in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Related: Our Favorite Towns to Visit in Mississippi The Siege of Vicksburg in 1863 played a major role in the outcome of the Civil War.