The state is helping to pay for the project, along with the Friends of Vicksburg National Military ... troops who were left ...

Prof. Clampitt (East Central University), the author of The Confederate Heartland, examines events in wartime Vicksburg following the surrender of 30,000 Confederate troops to U.S. Grant on July 4, ...

At Vicksburg, Mississippi ... the starving Confederates surrendered. From the Confederate commander, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Grant demanded unconditional surrender. The Mississippi belonged ...