At the ballot box and in the halls of Jackson's capitol building, Vicksburg voiced her opposition to secession and to the Civil War. But when the threat of Union attack was evident, Vicksburg ungrudgingly gave her support, in both materials and manpower, to the Confederacy. More than 2,500 men marched away to fight for the South; hundreds of them would never return. What many Vicksburg residents thought would be a matter of days soon evolved into...
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