In October 1917, the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, hosted a remarkable gathering: the National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee. 🎩 A four-day event from October 16 to 19 that brought together over 8,000 Civil War veterans—Union and Confederate alike—to commemorate the Siege of Vicksburg and celebrate a legacy of peace more than 50 years after the war’s end. Known as the Blue and Gray Reunion, this event was a powerful symbol of reconciliation, set against the backdrop of America’s entry int

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The Siege of Vicksburg, In the 1860s, Vicksburg, Mississippi, was strategically located along the Mississippi River (the river changed course in 1876). If the Union took the city, they would control the river, and Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas would be separated from the rest of the Confederacy. The citizens of Vicksburg first endured bombardment in 1862, but the major siege of the city occurred from May to July 1863. Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant commanded the forces besieging the city.