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Vicksburg

vicks·burg

US/ˈvɪksbɜrɡ/ rare

noun

1.

a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River 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

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a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered

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