Vicksburg was instrumental in the growth and propagation of American Blues music- which is native to Mississippi. The legacy of the siege lives through much of Vicksburg's art, museum exhibits and traditions. The people of Vicksburg dug caves into the hillsides to survive the bombardment. Grant led the federal army on a campaign to put the Confederate garrison at Vicksburg to siege. After federal naval forces on the Mississippi River made several attempts at passing the rebel batteries at Vicksburg, Ulysses S. A key strategic goal of the Union was to capture the entire Mississippi River and cut the Confederacy in two, but the rebels controlled the river's hairpin turn at Vicksburg, allowing men and supplies to cross from west to east. Vicksburg is most famous as the location of a 47-day siege during the American Civil War (May 18 – July 4, 1863). In the decades leading up to the American Civil War, Vicksburg became very affluent from the large number of Delta planters and merchants making considerable profits selling cotton to European and North American textile producers. Vicksburg sits at the southern most tip of the Mississippi Delta, and served as a production and commerce hub for the cotton industry. Cotton was grown most profitably in the Mississippi Delta region. Vicksburg experienced rapid growth during the expansion of the cotton trade in the American South.

It was named after Newitt Vick, a Methodist minister. When the Americans took possession in 1798, they changed the name to Walnut Hills.Ī sprawling community developed which was incorporated in 1825 as the City of Vicksburg. In 1790 the Spanish founded a military outpost on the site, which they called Fort Nogales (nogales meaning 'walnut trees'). The first Europeans who settled the area were French colonists, who built Fort-Saint-Pierre in 1719 on the high bluffs overlooking the Yazoo River at present-day Redwood.

The area which is now Vicksburg used to be part of the Natchez Native Americans' territory. Vicksburg is a cultural landmark in the American South, and is home to the Southern Cultural Heritage Center, Vicksburg Military Park, and the Lower Mississippi River Museum. Vicksburg is a city of 22,000 people (2018) in Warren County, Mississippi.

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