vicksburg

Noun

• a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered

• a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Vicksburg , siege of Vicksburg