A skeptic spent the night hunting for Civil War ghosts. ‘Did you hear that?’

A skeptic hunts for ghosts at McRaven House, an antebellum home in Vicksburg, Mississippi, rife with bewitching tales from ...
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Is Time Running Out for the USS Cairo?

The USS Cairo, a Civil War-era “ironclad” gunboat, was raised from the Mississippi River in 1964—but if its wood decay problem goes unaddressed, it may sink again.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Iowans return to Vicksburg to honor Civil War dead

DES MOINES --- One hundred and fifty years ago today, scores of Iowans serving in the Union Army were dug in, laying siege to the Mississippi town of Vicksburg. Two assaults, one on May 19, 1863, and ...
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Vicksburg : Grant's campaign that broke the Confederacy / Donald L. Miller

Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...
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Civil War group to take another look at Vicksburg

One of the pivotal battles of the Civil War is the topic of the next meeting of the Rochester Civil War Round Table at 7 p.m. March 14 at the History Center of Olmsted County, 1195 West Circle Drive ...

Do you believe in ghosts? You just might if you visit this historic house dubbed Mississippi’s “most haunted”

Visitors to Vicksburg, Mississippi, can experience a 230-year-old house that’s alleged to host numerous active spirits.
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Receding tide : Vicksburg and Gettysburg : the campaigns that changed the Civil War / Edwin C. Bearss with J. Parker Hills

Foreword: American icon -- Introduction: Trinity and tide -- 1: Richmond and the river -- 2: Series of experiments -- 3: War has responsibilities -- 4: What will the country say? -- 5: To the railroad ...
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Remains At Vicksburg Civil War Battlefield Identified As Man Missing Since 1990s

Bones found in Vicksburg National Military Park have been identified as those of a 90-year-old man missing since 1995. Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said James Morgan's remains were found in May ...
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Book Review: Fred Grant at Vicksburg: A Boy’s Memoir at His Father’s Side During the American Civil War

Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...