Vicksburg, Mississippi in Requiem for a Nun (Location)

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Vicksburg
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OutOfYoknapatawpha
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Text (when unambiguous)
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2298
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434
Description: 

Vicksburg, a city on steep bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, is mentioned in the novel as the port where the marble for the courthouse columns were transferred from a New Orleans steamboat to "a smaller steamboat" that could travel up the "Yazoo and Sunflower and Tallahatchie" rivers (36).

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Only Mentioned in Text
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Continuous
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City

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