This park preserves the site of the 47 day siege during May and June of 1863. This Union victory was crucial in allowing the United States to win the Civil War because they controlled the important transportation route of the Mississippi River and it's tributaries. The site's most popular features are the restored gunboat, the USS Cairo, and site of Grant's Canal, a failed attempt by US Grant to change the course of the Mississippi River to avoid Confederate guns at the town of Vicksburg.See more of my pictures here.
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