Vicksburg
pronunciation
How to pronounce Vicksburg in British English:
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How to pronounce Vicksburg in American English:
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- Noun:
- a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves
- a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered
Word Origin
- Vicksburg
- city in Mississippi, U.S., incorporated 1825, named for an early settler the Rev. Newitt Vick, who was said to have come to the region c. 1812 from Virginia with his family and chosen the town site in 1819.
Example
- 1. Vicksburg lies where the mississippi and yazoo rivers meet .
- 2. In vicksburg , only a few rooftops topped the brackish waters .
- 3. In north vicksburg , friends and family members have been helping joann parks prepare to leave .
- 4. The waters at vicksburg are expected to reach their highest levels -- seventeen and a half meters sometime next week .
- 5. The flooded mississippi river was forcing the yazoo river to top its banks where the two meet near vicksburg causing towns and farms upstream on the yazoo to flood .