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Vicksburg
     n 1: a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the
          Mississippi River 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
     2: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after
        being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates
        surrendered [syn: {siege of Vicksburg}]