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date: 25 March 2023

Vicksburg, Siege of 

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The Oxford Companion to United States History
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Lawrence Lee HewittLawrence Lee Hewitt

(1863).The fall of New Orleans to Union forces during the Civil War in April 1862 made the bluff city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the key to control of the ... ...

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