The Vicksburg Civil War Museum at 1123 Washington Street will have its grand opening on Saturday, May 15 at 10:00...
The Governor’s Mansion will reopen for guided tours beginning the first of April. On April 1, the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion is opening up its historic section...
Two historic Vicksburg properties are among several across Mississippi that will benefit from Mississippi Department of Archives and History grants. At its regular meeting Jan. 22,...
Peggy Schaeffer has always had a love for her family, history, old homes and Christmas. So when she moved to Vicksburg from Huntsville, Texas, in 1987,...
Most everyone called him Doc, but he was George Ferdinand Smith and was the 22nd veterinarian in the state of Mississippi. His stories were legend, and...
The scene was reminiscent of one that would have appeared in “Gone with the Wind.” Union soldiers invaded a home, had words with the owner, speaking...
It was Friday afternoon and a typical winter day in Vicksburg in 1869. Federal troops, garrisoned in the city to “reconstruct” it, policed the muddy streets....
There’s a small white stone in the Dockery family graveyard at Lamartine in Columbia County, Arkansas, with the simple inscription “Truce” on it, and therein lies...
Verse by great poets has been written in honor of a louse — and possibly other critters — but it was a Vicksburg attorney who delivered...
One of the old Vicksburg trollies made its way up Washington Street Thursday on its way to its temporary home in the Blackburn building. It was...