Fort Garrott was the best preserved of all the Confederate fortifications when the Vicksburg National Military Park was created in 1899 to commemorate the siege and...
When President Donald Trump gives a speech, his audience usually numbers more people than the population of Vicksburg. He’s never been here, but at least 11...
“What on earth is she doing now?” may be what Mahala Roach’s neighbors thought in December 1851. Mrs. Roach, who lived on Depot Street in downtown...
At approximately 2 a.m. on April 27. 1865, just a few weeks after the end of the Civil War, there was an explosion aboard the steamboat...
Do you remember the scene in “Gone with the Wind” when Miss Scarlett and Rhett Butler danced the Virginia Reel? Folks will be doing the same...
Next to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lower Mississippi Museum is a position tablet for a 10-inch cannon that was located there during the Siege...
This is the second of two stories about the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas, which made Naval history here in 1862, and of the men who lost...
Brig. Gen. Martin E Green misspoke twice during the campaign for Vicksburg. At the A.K. Shaifer House on the Port Gibson battlefield, the ladies were busy...
This is the first part of a two-part story on the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas, which made Naval history at Vicksburg in 1862. This second part...
Foster Lightcap was Vicksburg’s first dentist. According to the 1860 City Directory, his office was located on the west side of Washington Street. Tragically, Lightcap was...
