Vicksburg Auditorium Schedule

Did You Know?

The Confederate government protested the validity of the paroles on technical grounds and the issue was referred to Grant who, in April 1864, was general in chief of the Army.

The defensive line around Vicksburg ran approximately 6.5 miles, based on terrain of varying elevations that included hills and knobs with steep angles for an attacker to ascend under fire.

In short time it became clear that even 50,000 Union soldiers would not be able to effect a complete encirclement of the Confederate defenses.

173. The full campaign, since March 29, claimed 10,142 Union and 9,091 Confederate killed and wounded.

John E.Smith made it as far as the slope of the redan, but huddled there, dodging grenades until dark before they were recalled.

1309-11.Surrender was formalized by an old oak tree, "made historical by the event." In his Personal Memoirs, Grant described the fate of this luckless tree:The surrender was finalized on July 4, Independence Day, a day Pemberton had hoped would bring more sympathetic terms from the United States.