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Extract from the Vicksburg Travel Guides: The historic port of
VICKSBURG
straddles a high bluff on a bend in the Mississippi, 44 miles west of Jackson. During the Civil War, its domination of the river halted Union shipping, and led Abraham Lincoln to call Vicksburg the "key to the Confederacy." It was a crucial target for General Ulysses S. Grant, who eventually landed to the south in the spring of 1863, circled inland and attacked from the east. After a 47-day siege, the outnumbered Confederates surrendered on the Fourth of July - a holiday Vicksburg declined to celebrate for the next hundred years - and Lincoln was able to rejoice that "the Father of Waters a...
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