VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – One of the Civil War’s rarest surviving artifacts is preserved at the Vicksburg National Military Park, the remains of the USS Cairo. The USS Cairo is the only surviving ...

Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – While Americans celebrate July 4 as the nation’s birthday, the date also holds a separate, pivotal place in Mississippi history. That date is memorialized at the Vicksburg ...

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2024. Pp. xxv, 535. Illus., maps, appends, notes, biblio., index. $54.95. ISBN:0700636552 Grant's Blitz that Isolated Vicksburg ...

Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...

Engineers in Union blue and Confederate gray played a prominent role in the Vicksburg campaigns of 1862-1863. Although their contributions have largely gone unnoticed in published works on the ...

Strand Theatre to screen “Granite Rapids Moon,” a family-friendly drama shot on 82 miles of Grand Canyon trails, with ...