Vicks·burg /ˈvɪksˌbɚ/
  Vicksburg
       n 1: a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the
            Mississippi River west of Jackson; focus of an important
            campaign during the American Civil War as the Union
            fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut
            the Confederacy into two halves
       2: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after
          being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates
          surrendered [syn: siege of Vicksburg]