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07-06-2009, 12:22 PM
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Patriot
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Re: This Day In History
July 4th was also the day that Vicksburg Mississippi fell to the Union and pretty much crippled the Confederacy after losing the Battle of Gettysburg the previous day and then losing control of the Mississippi River
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Author of  eath, Disease, and Life at War: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865.
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