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Jefferson Davis countermanded his order for the evacuation of Vicksburg, and, as he had feared, he proved unable to relieve the city.
As for operations in the west, Grant slipped south of Vicksburg and crossed to the east bank of the Mississippi river.
After Grant outflanked the Confederates and encircled Vicksburg, they stood him off for weeks.
Others will be struck more by the archaic nature of the Vicksburg campaign.
Despite two consecutive fracturings conducted in the Vicksburg sands this well is non productive.
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.
The Vicksburg sands encountered were fractured and a build up test conducted.
It's a short drive out of Vicksburg, on the Yazoo River, near where it flows into the Mississippi.
In 1933, Ben Shahn loaned Walker Evans a right-angle viewfinder, which he took on assignment to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
A sand level in the Frio formation provided some gas shows while drilling although no gas shows were noticed in the Vicksburg sands.
He was his own worst enemy and his rash violation of Grant's departmental regulations caused his removal from command of his corps shortly before the fall of Vicksburg.
He attributes the major Confederate defeats in 1863 at Vicksburg and Missionary Ridge to this class conflict.
The periods indicated by the sediment record correspond to historic records of high river flow recorded by instruments at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to our winner, Patricia Hoseman of Vicksburg.
In honor of the Sesquicentennial, the Vicksburg National Military Park in Vicksburg, MS hosted a Grand Illumination event.
Gulf Coast, the Oligocene Vicksburg and Frio Formations contain major petroleum reservoirs in the Rio Grande embayment.
Dressed rats hung alongside mule meat in the market. Federal troops lived off the land, so other Mississippians suffered almost as much as those entrapped in Vicksburg.
Numerous gas shows were observed while drilling and others sands levels are currently being completed and evaluated, more particularly the third and fourth Vicksburg sands which have a well-developed thickness.
Three productive Vicksburg sand levels were encountered and fractured.
Then Christmas Day dawned, and there was Vicksburg lifted two hundred feet above the fever swamps, her court-house shining in the morning sun.
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He was in Vicksburg, although you may not have heard of him there, but he got out before the surrender.
Vicksburg would have been won in vain and the Union would be broken in the West.
They believed that Vicksburg was held by fifteen thousand men at the utmost.
The ninety-fifth embarked on board a transfer at Vicksburg, and started for the mouth of Red river.
There was a great passing to and fro in Vicksburg, but its lights were dim.
Look at the inflexible will of the man, as displayed at donelson and Vicksburg!
Another plan was to cut a channel through the peninsula of the Great Bend of the Mississippi, opposite Vicksburg.
October had put on its gaudy dress, and the seventy-second were still in Vicksburg.
The moon was gibbous in its approach to the full when the boat left Vicksburg.
After crossing Pearl River, very little occurred of interest in my individual experience during the march back to Vicksburg.
It was curious how much help he expected of Vicksburg, a hostile town.
On the first day in Vicksburg, the Jungle Cats toured ERDC, the most expansive USACE research laboratory.
During eight years she served three parts of the year on that boat, and the winters on a Vicksburg packet.
His cannon flared on the dark horizon and the shells crashed in Vicksburg.
May turned into June, and still the steel coil enclosed Vicksburg.
The Yazoo River, strategically important during the Civil War because it bounded Vicksburg, Mississippi, was difficult for the North to capture due to its swampland terrain.
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