Southern tradition and lore holds that during the Siege of Vicksburg, when food ran drastically short, starving citizens of the city found that the peas, which they had up to that time only considered animal feed, were rather tasty if boiled with whatever meat was available.
Green would rise to the rank of Confederate Brigadier General before being killed at the Siege of Vicksburg in late June, 1863.
Thomas E. Corcoran (October 12, 1839 – March 12, 1904) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Siege of Vicksburg.
It features maps of engagements large and small including Gettysburg, the Siege of Vicksburg, Shiloh and the various epochs of the Atlanta campaign.
Worthington was present during the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Cumberland Gap.
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It joined the Union army operating against Vicksburg, Mississippi, in January 1863, and participated in the various engagements of the siege.
As a member of the 5th Minnesota, Amos participated in the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi (May 26–30, 1862); the Battle of Corinth (October 3–4, 1862); Grant’s central Mississippi campaign (November 1862-January, 1863); the Siege of Vicksburg (May 18-July 4, 1863); and the Battle of Nashville (December 15–16, 1864), among numerous other campaigns.
Founded one year after the Siege of Vicksburg, in 1864 in Vicksburg, Mississippi by Reverend Page Tyler, a missionary from Indiana, it is the "first"church of the Jackson-Vicksburg District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Captain William Henry Ward, Company B - Medal of Honor recipient for action during the siege of Vicksburg, May 3, 1863