Synonyms:
Vicksburg, siege_of_Vicksburg
Meaning: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered
Synonyms:
Vicksburg
Meaning: 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
Usage examples
There was a great passing to and fro in Vicksburg, but its lights were dim.
As the score between us is even I wish that you were out of Vicksburg and with your own people."
Grant then crossed the Big Black and the next day was before Vicksburg, with his enemy inside the works.
Vicksburg was not yet taken, it is true, nor were its defenders demoralized by any of our previous movements.
Grant's campaign against Vicksburg deserves to be compared with that of Napoleon which resulted in the fall of Ulm.
He felt sorry, in truth, for all Vicksburg, because now that he was outside his fears for Grant disappeared, and he knew that he must win.
With a broken army, Pemberton fell back on Vicksburg. Grant pursued without a moment's delay, and came up with the rear guard at Big Black River.
As soon as the National troops reached Vicksburg an assault was attempted, but the place was too strong, and the attack was repulsed, with heavy loss.
He, therefore, took another and widely different line, and determined to cross the river from the western to the eastern bank below Vicksburg, to the south.
The situation was this: The enemy had about sixty thousand men at Vicksburg, Haines' Bluff, and at Jackson, Mississippi, about fifty miles east of Vicksburg.