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| vicksburg |
| vicksburg | (n) 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 |
| vicksburg | (n) a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered, Syn. siege of Vicksburg |
