Vicksburg

Vicksburg
/viks"berrg/, n.
a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863. 25,434.

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 city, seat (1836) of Warren county, western Mississippi, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Yazoo River, 44 miles (71 km) west of Jackson. Frenchmen settled there and built Fort-Saint-Pierre (1719) on the high bluffs, but the settlement was wiped out by Native Americans 10 years later. A military outpost established on the site by Spaniards in 1790 was known as Nogales, later called Walnut Hills. A sprawling community developed, which was named for Newitt (or Newit) Vick, a Methodist minister who laid out the town. The settlement prospered as a shipping point. Because of its strategic location, Vicksburg was besieged by Union forces for 47 days during General Ulysses S. Grant's campaign for control of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War; it surrendered on July 4, 1863. The Old Court House (1858) is now a museum displaying Confederate and antebellum artifacts.

      Vicksburg is a major tourist spot (including, since the early 1990s, gambling casinos) and a shipping centre for the surrounding agricultural region. Manufactures include wood products, light fixtures, and metal products, and poultry processing is also important. The city has a branch of Hinds Community College, and the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station is nearby. Historic homes can be viewed during annual spring and fall pilgrimages.

      Vicksburg National Military Park, established in 1899, occupies 2.7 square miles (7 square km) and partially encircles the city. It preserves the site of the Civil War campaigns and contains Vicksburg National Cemetery, the restored Union gunboat USS Cairo, numerous monuments and reconstructed trenches, and other fortifications. The Gray and Blue Naval Museum contains a diorama of the siege of Vicksburg and the world's largest collection of Civil War gunboat models. Inc. 1825. Pop. (1990) 20,908; (2000) 26,407.

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