vicksburg   (TTS Sound)

The noun vicksburg has 2 senses

• Vicksburg -- (a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves)


• Vicksburg, siege of Vicksburg -- (a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered)