Independence Day: the Vicksburg Siege
[July 4, 2018] Last year, I wrote about the surrender of the Confederate garrison at Vicksburg, Mississippi on this date; July 4, 1863, and how the city’s residents did not celebrate Independence Day until the 1960s because of it.1 What I didn’t write was that the Vicksburg Siege was part of Lincoln’s grand strategy and his idea of… Read More »