Makes me want to read “The Killer Angels” all over again!
For all the hype about Gettysburg being the high tide of the Confederacy, the capture of Vicksburg was the killing blow.
At that point it was only a matter of time, regardless of what Lee did.
Let's celebrate by publicly reading the first two million pages of the Federal Register and tearing down the monument of the slave owner George Washington.
There is no longer a place in America for southerners.
Yankee bastids.
For 81 years after the July 4, 1863, surrender of Vicksburg the city did not celebrate Independence Day. The surrender of Vicksburg by Confederate General John C. Pemberton to Union General Ulysses S. Grant was not a cause for celebration for the fallen city. The 47-day siege of the city had left the citizens exhausted and humiliated. During the siege, the city was bombarded every day. By the end, the starving population of the city had been reduced to eating mules, dogs, cats and even rats.
http://www.visitvicksburg.com/vicksburg-independence-day