Vicksburg, largest city on the Mississippi, on a bluff above the river, fortified by the Confederates in the Civil War; after a siege of over a year surrendered to General Grant, 4th July 1864, with 30,000 men.
Population (circa 1900) given as 13,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Vichy * Vico, Giovanni Battista