Florida did not sit out of the Civil War. In fact, it was the third state to secede from the union, after South Carolina and Mississippi ... Louisiana by the fall of Vicksburg, it sucked Florida ...

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

You might be surprised to hear that Mississippi has ... But perhaps Vicksburg's most notable claim to fame is being a stronghold in the Civil War. So much so, Honest Abe himself once stated ...

Ulysses S. Grant in Vicksburg, Mississippi. However, it was not until I moved to Lexington and began studying the history of the first day of armed conflict in the Revolutionary War that I ...

a natural byway of the Mississippi River that was used by Union forces during the Civil War to bypass the Confederates and retake Vicksburg, Mississippi. Now the name of the coffee shop in ...

And like Grant, he became a fierce, uncompromising warrior who helped batter the Confederates into submission during the Civil War ... for Union victory. At Vicksburg, Mississippi, Sherman ...

On November 2, he begins a campaign with Vicksburg, Mississippi as its objective ... in gold the greenback currency issued during the Civil War. Grant thus quickly places himself with the ...

California was never a hotbed of Civil War action, but the Golden State — and the Bay Area in particular — played a major role. The riches of the Gold Rush didn’t just line the pockets of ...

ALLEGAN, Mich. — Six local soldiers of the Civil War were honored with gravestones in Allegan on Saturday. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Friends of Allegan’s Oakwood ...

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial ... Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia ...

The corpse was a stage prop, but the tears and wails that greeted it were real. The civil war has killed an estimated 6,500 people, most of them civilians, and displaced nearly 1 million since 2016.