Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Garry Adelman of the American Battlefield Trust described the motivations and events that occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg and the ...
Celebrations are getting underway Wednesday to celebrate the city of Vicksburg's 200th anniversary.The city started as a French settlement but was incorporated in 1825. The city was firmly etched into ...
Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.26248937.3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.26248937.3 John S. Kountz was a happy man that August of 1895. He had seemingly reached the top ...
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2024. Pp. xxv, 535. Illus., maps, appends, notes, biblio., index. $54.95. ISBN:0700636552 Grant's Blitz that Isolated Vicksburg ...
Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...
Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, waged from May 18 to July 4, 1863. The park, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Delta, Louisiana, also ...