Vicksburg, Mississippi in "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (Location)

At the time of this story, Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River - "all we had left of the River," as Bayard puts it (669). After a long campaign and siege, the city surrendered to Ulysses Grant on 4 July 1863.