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nouna decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered
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nouna 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 halvespart of:
Definition that contains vicksburg
- greenville a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg
- yazoo a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg
- yazoo river a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg