Monument / MemorialVicksburg National Military Park

Tchoate rated Vicksburg National Battlefield as four of five stars. Vicksburg sits high on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. During the American Civil War this "was a major fortress guarding the supply route". The entrance to the park is an easy "one quarter of a mile off of Interstate 20". Vicksburg is "one of those places where you can s [more]

The events for the Vicksburg campaign "was one of the major decisive battles" in the war between the states. This preservation of history "commemorates and memorializes" what happened here in 1863. There are looping tours traversing both lines. One in fact goes "amid the trenches and emplacements". The two sides are "graphically shown with blue and [more]