Associations to the word «Vicksburg»

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VICKSBURG, proper noun. A city in Mississippi

Dictionary definition

VICKSBURG, noun. A town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves.
VICKSBURG, noun. A decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered.

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