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Monday, July 5, 2010

Loss of Vicksburg sealed South's fate

The 1863 Battle of Vicksburg may have been the Civil War’s most consequential fight. The Vicksburg Siege split the Confederacy in two, brought Ulysses S. Grant to the fore, and sealed the fate of the South, says novelist-historian Winston Groom. • Listen