The memorable siege of Vicksburg. Miss., by Gen. U. S. Grant, from March 29, 1863, to July 4 of the same year, is recalled upon viewing pictures of this city and the National Military Park there. Coincident with the fall of Vicksburg came ...See moreThe memorable siege of Vicksburg. Miss., by Gen. U. S. Grant, from March 29, 1863, to July 4 of the same year, is recalled upon viewing pictures of this city and the National Military Park there. Coincident with the fall of Vicksburg came the defeat of Lee at Gettysburg, these two disasters marking the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. In the National Cemetery are the graves of 16,892 Federal soldiers, 12,769 of whom are unknown. There are views of the city with its stately court house built by slave labor in 1858, of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, and of the battlefield. Among the monuments pictured are the U.S. Navy Memorial, and those of Mississippi, Illinois, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Written by
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