History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2149 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vicksburg
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The idea
Vicksburg was a commercial centre on the bluffs above the Mississippi, and two attempts to take it in eighteen sixty-two both failed.
In practice
Residents hiding in caves and eating pets to survive a siege of more than a month.
Where people slip
The trapped Confederates surrendered on July third, eighteen sixty-three, and the Confederacy was split in two along its central river.
Your place on the trail
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