Vicksburg

Vicksburg Definition

Vicks·burg (viks′bʉrg′)

city in W Miss., on the Mississippi River: besieged & captured by Grant in the Civil War (1863): pop. 26,000

Etymology: after Rev. Newitt Vick (?-1819), early settler

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