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A town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River west of Jackson
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vicksburg
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Vicksburg is the name of some places in the United States of America: Vicksburg, Colorado , a ghost mining community listed on the National Register of Historic Places Vicksburg, Florida Vicksburg, Indiana Vicksburg, Michigan Vicksburg, Mississippi The ...
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Population (2000): 2320 Housing Units (2000): 956 Land area (2000): 1.832728 sq. miles (4.746743 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.056096 sq. miles (0.145289 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.888824 sq. miles (4.892032 sq. km) FIPS code: 82300 Located within: Michigan ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in Mississippi, U.S., incorporated 1825, named for an early settler the Rev. Newitt Vick , who was said to have come to the region c.1812 from Virginia with his family and chosen the town site in 1819.
Usage examples of vicksburg.
Daddy had brought me a book of poems, sonnets written by a southern lady whose lover was killed at Vicksburg.
It is a city of grifters, whores, smugglers, pushers, drug wholesalers, spies, pimps, hire hatchets, military mercenaries, recruiters, fences, fagins, beggars, clandestine surgeons, blackbirders, glimjacks, outstanders, short con, long con, sting riggers, girlboys, you name it, they sell it in Vicksburg low town.
It is a city of gnifters, whores, smugglers, pushers, drug wholesalers, spivs, pimps, hire hatchets, military mercenaries, recruiters, fences, fagins, beggars, clandestine surgeons, blackbirders, glimjacks, outstanders, short con, long con, sting riggers, girlboys, you name it, they sell it in Vicksburg low town.
Not the wars of Caesar nor the invasions of Napoleon nor the river bank at Vicksburg nor the sands of Iwo were worse than the Korean war if your husband had to bomb the bridges, and toward morning Nancy could control her courage no longer and began to cry.
There is currentless water--also a big island--in front of Vicksburg now.
Vicksburg, the group's Aegis cruiser, trailing the carrier astern.
From Fort Henry through her battering at Fort Donelson, her incredible run past Island Ten through the siege of Vicksburg and the fight with the durable Arkansas, and to the battle of Memphis, the defense of Nashville, and the Union campaign up the Red River, Carondelet ran up a battle record that would not be surpassed until World War U.
In July 1863, the same week Lee's army confronts the great Federal forces at Gettysburg, Grant succeeds in capturing both Vicksburg and the Confederate force that had occupied it.
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Arkansas, looking for all the world like a bizarre barge heaped with iron scrap, navigated the dogleg bend in the river above Vicksburg and finally came under the protection of the Confederate Army gun batteries sitting high atop the rocky cliffs of the Rebel stronghold.
The latter had captured Fort Donelson, defeated the Confederates at Shiloh, Iuka, Port Gibson, and other places, and had Vicksburg in his iron grasp.
That Great-granddaddy did right at Vicksburg, that a corner of Shiloh is forever Yazoo City?