Location: Jackson Following the American troops’ capture of Vicksburg during the Civil War, rebel forces retreated to Jackson, central Mississippi’s last remaining Confederate stronghold.

Kelly Hopkins, commander of Henry Casey Camp 92 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), recently conducted a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at the Washington Cemetery grave site of ...

Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia ... the occupied city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, for instance ...

survived Union shelling during the Civil War. Just over 40 miles west of Jackson and perched on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, the small city of Vicksburg offers an experience with equal ...

Long and flat, and with breathtaking views, the Delta stretches 200 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, down to Vicksburg, Mississippi ... after the Civil War, the state became among the most ...

gives us a look at the riverine side of the Union’s effort to secure the Mississippi and adjacent streams from the start of the Civil War through the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson in mid-1863.

Johnston's experiences during the Civil War ... the first two years of the war, and comprises two "books", one on Johnston's role in operations in Virginia and adjacent areas in 1861-1862, and one on ...