vicksburg Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun 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
   
2. noun a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered
   siege of Vicksburg.
   

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