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Explore Vicksburg National Military Park, a key Civil War site in Mississippi where a 47-day battle helped reunite a divided ...

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CHANCE FOR SUMMER CAMPS TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY. "HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A CAMEL IN REAL LIFE?" TAYLOR: NO MAM! ITS A FIRST FOR TAYLOR STAMPS - A CAMP COUNSELOR AT THE YMCA IN VICKSBURG - A REAL ...

Prologue -- Cairo -- River warrior -- Winter fortress -- A tremendous murder mill -- "The battle for the Mississippi" -- "These troublous times" -- Secessionist ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg ...

A Vicksburg man's goal to collect guns from the Civil War period grew into a larger project when he discovered a bill of sale for a 7-year-old girl. Then, his goal became a quest to give people a ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. -- Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and '50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg ...

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