Vicksburg

Words with a similar base: Vicksburg, siege_of_Vicksburg

'Vicksburg'

[vicksburg.n.01] as in: a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the 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

'Vicksburg'

[vicksburg.n.02] as in: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered