Grant, along with the concurrent Battle of Gettysburg, marked the turning-point of the war.
During the American Civil War, it was a key Confederate river-port, and its July 1863 surrender to Ulysses S. They conducted fur trading with the Natchez and others, and started plantations. The first Europeans who settled the area were French colonists who built Fort Saint Pierre in 1719 on the high bluffs overlooking the Yazoo River at present-day Redwood. The area that is now Vicksburg was long occupied by the Natchez Native Americans as part of their historical territory along the Mississippi. It was incorporated as Vicksburg in 1825 after Methodist missionary Newitt Vick. The outpost withstood an attack from the native Natchez people. Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vicksburg was built by French colonists in 1719. It is the county seat and has a population as of 2020 of 21,573.
Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States.
