at 7 p.m., at the Vicksburg National Military Park located at 3201 Clay St., a free Memorial Day Concert titled Symphony at Sunset featuring the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra will take place.

Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that ...

Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, waged from May 18 to July 4, 1863. The park, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Delta, Louisiana ...

The handsome monument in the Vicksburg Military Park to the three Massachusetts ... members of the Vicksburg National Park Commission, the Confederate organization, and a thousand or more citizens ...

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 ...

The National Park Service will conduct prescribed fires at Vicksburg National Military Park on Feb. 5 and 6, weather permitting. The fires will cover approximately 231 acres in areas including the ...

More than 500,000 annual visitors tour the Vicksburg National Military Park, which houses 1,300 monuments and markers as well as the Vicksburg National Cemetery. Another bill passed in the Senate ...

U.S. national parks and monuments don't just mark natural ... which is now commemorated at Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi. He was captured while on a reconnaissance mission ...

In recent years, the National Park Service has broadened how it presents history in parks nationwide. In the Vicksburg military park, which is dotted with more than 1,400 monuments, markers and ...

Recent ceremonies, including flag-placing and libation rituals, honor the memory of Black soldiers buried in Vicksburg National Cemetery. The soldiers, previously unknown, were identified through ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims ...