Visiting Civil War sites. ... Md., with Gettysburg, Pa., and Vicksburg, Miss., taking their turns in 2013. But you don't need to wait until the actual anniversary to visit a specific Civil War site.

With new museums on the way, the 150th anniversary of the Civil War nearing and continuous refinement of marketing and advertising efforts by the Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau, those in the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi is a state with an abundance of military history, especially in Central Mississippi. Many of the area’s most visited military sites relate to the Civil War.

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

The wide-ranging war -- Other Civil War sites Summary Features ten different multi-day itineraries that lead visitors through every major campaign site, as well as lesser-known venues in unlikely ...

More than 150 years later, the Civil War still looms large in Vicksburg at some of its tourist sites. While historic symbols of the Confederacy are unavoidably part of the fabric of the city, ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

ANOTHER CYCLORAMA OF A GREAT EVENT IN THE CIVIL WAR. Share full article. June 8, 1886. ... The new cyclorama, representing the assault upon Vicksburg, May 23. 1863, ...

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, 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 ...