The main entry point to the vast battlefield landscape surrounding Vicksburg, with earthworks, monuments, artillery positions and preserved siege terrain. The park documents the 1863 campaign whose outcome helped give the Union control of the Mississippi River. Coordinate source: https://www.recreation.gov/gateways/2782
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: nps.gov/vick/index.htm