(WLBT) - A new Civil War Museum is coming to the city ... lacks the space for expansion,” Megan Bankston, Vicksburg Project Manager with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi ... and the museum curators — they said we didn’t fight in the Civil War,” Dukes ...

Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National ...

Visit Mississippi takes a closer ... The battlefield is located in Tupelo. Vicksburg is one of the most popular destinations in the state for Civil War and history buffs. Vicksburg National ...

“The superintendents and the museum curators — they said we didn’t fight in the Civil War,” Dukes said ... had enlisted in the Vicksburg-based 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent ...

“The superintendents and the museum curators — they said we didn’t fight in the Civil War,” Dukes said ... had enlisted in the Vicksburg-based 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent ...

A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union ...

“The superintendents and the museum curators — they said we didn’t fight in the Civil War,” Dukes said ... had enlisted in the Vicksburg-based 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent ...