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Offline Kazimierz

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Vicksburg remembered
« on: July 04, 2024, 02:48:25 PM »
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    • As a Confederate Trad Polish pickle polar bear, today I mark the anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg MS in1863.

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    Re: Vicksburg remembered
    « Reply #1 on: February 05, 2025, 03:18:17 PM »
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    • From the collective State memory of Grant’s saturation artillery bombing of Vicksburg, I believe Mississippi did not again celebrate the 4th of July until 1964.

    BTW, Grant’s nickname from the Battle of Spotsylvania (that Yankee historians don’t mention) was “butcher”.
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