Tucson, Arizona author Sally Rutledge Moore has released her debut novel “Fever Season” set during the Siege of Vicksburg.

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, 1863, ...

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. Learn more about the battle at various museums and ...

(WJTV) – Legislation to upgrade the Vicksburg National Military Park (VNMP) passed the U.S. Senate, according to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). The VNMP preserves the site of the Battle of ...

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 ...