VICKSBURG, Miss. — Visitors will find this Mississippi river city much more welcoming than did Ohioans Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman 150 years ago this summer. Although overshadowed by ...

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, 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 ...

With new museums on the way, the 150th anniversary of the Civil War nearing and continuous refinement of marketing and advertising efforts by the Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau, those in the ...

Visitors to the Vicksburg National Military Park walk the ground where Union and Confederal soldiers once shed their souls and blood for. The park has more than 1,400 monuments.Robert Major Walker, 80 ...

VICKSBURG – The Vicksburg National Military Park opens a three-part program Friday highlighting the Civil War events of 1863. The programs will begin at 7 p.m. at the park’s Visitor Center ...

A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black history. Recent ceremonies honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers and two white officers who fought for the Union ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A new Civil War Museum is coming to the city of Vicksburg in 2028. Planning and designing are underway for Vicksburg’s newest tourist attraction, an interpretive center ...

Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the Battle of Vicksburg, a turning point in America's Civil War, waged from May 18 to July 4, 1863.

More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.

A Black Civil War reenactor holds on to his Union Army belt buckle during a ceremony of remembrance at the burial site of 13 soldiers of the 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent), Wednesday ...