STARKVILLE, Miss.—The author of a new book on Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg campaign will hold a presentation and book signing next week at Mississippi State’s Mitchell Memorial Library. Donald L.

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

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 ...

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xx, 48. Illus., maps, appends, notes, index. $34.95. ISBN: 0700629068 Grant Attempts to Storm Vicksburg Timothy B. Smith’s latest book describes the ...

Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2021. Pp. xxviii, 724. Illus., maps, appends., gloss., notes, index. $45.00. ISBN: 0700632255 Vicksburg Besieged While Grant’s ...

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This feature looks back at some of the happenings from the pages of The Vicksburg Post over the past 100 years.

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VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg ...

Donald L. Miller, a New York Times bestselling author and Pennsylvania-based historian, is giving a presentation and holding a book signing at Mississippi State’s Mitchell Memorial Library. The event, ...