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The fall of Vicksburg produced one of the most famous newspapers of the Civil War and allowed a former Union soldier to use that press for his forceful and colorful writing. The newspaper became a staunch voice of the Union in the south, but it did not always agree with Abraham Lincoln.
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Peter F. Walker, Vicksburg: A People at War 1860–1865 ( Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1960 ), 158.
The vote was 816 for Bell electors, 580 for Breckinridge electors, and 83 for Douglas electors, found in Percy Lee Rainwater, Mississippi: Storm Center of Secession, 1856–1861 ( Baton Rouge: Otto Claitor, 1938 ).
Varina Davis, quoted in Gordon A. Cotton and Jeff T. Giambrone, Vicksburg and the War ( Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2004 ), 10.
Gordon A. Cotton and Jeff T. Giambrone, Vicksburg and the War ( Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2004 ), 20.
Henry Halleck, quoted in Winston Groom, Vicksburg 1863 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), preface.
Alexander Abrams, quoted in Gordon A. Cotton and Ralph C. Mason, With Malice Toward Some: The Military Occupation of Vicksburg 1864–1865 ( Vicksburg: Vicksburg and Warren County Historical Society, 1991 ), 9.
Franklin William Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814–1879 (Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910 ), 223.
David G Martin, Vicksburg Campaign: April 1862–July 1863 ( Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1998 ), 196.
Christopher Waldrep, Vicksburg’s Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance ( Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005 ), 247. Waldrep and other historians maintain that it would be impossible to state with certainty that Independence Day was ignored because there can be no record of private, family observances.
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van Tuyll, D.R., Dupont, N.M., Hayden, J.R. (2015). Siege, Surrender and a New Age of Journalism in Occupied Vicksburg. In: Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137513311_5
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