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Traditional Catholic Faith => Politics and World Leaders => Topic started by: Kazimierz on July 04, 2024, 02:48:25 PM

Title: Vicksburg remembered
Post by: Kazimierz on July 04, 2024, 02:48:25 PM

As a Confederate Trad Polish pickle polar bear, today I mark the anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg MS in1863.

Deo Vindice

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Title: Re: Vicksburg remembered
Post by: Incredulous on February 05, 2025, 03:18:17 PM

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”.