by Jim Beaugez | Feb 2025 | Vicksburg Voices
Bicentennial Vicksburg Voices: Honoring Peter Crosby at Catfish Row Museum A Legacy of Leadership and Resilience in Reconstruction-Era Vicksburg By Jim Beaugez The surrender of Vicksburg by Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton to Union forces led by Maj. Gen....
by Jim Beaugez | Jan 2025 | Vicksburg Voices
Unsung Heroes: On the trail of the U.S. Colored Troops in Vicksburg Researchers uncover records of Black soldiers who served during the Union’s Vicksburg campaign By Jim Beaugez Under cover of darkness during the early hours of June 7, 1863, an army of 1,500...
by Jim Beaugez | Dec 2024 | Vicksburg Voices
How Vicksburg Warren School District’s ‘academy’ approach is building intergenerational opportunity As the city of Vicksburg approaches its bicentennial, we look back on the evolution of education. By Jim Beaugez When history and memory are reduced to internet...
by Jim Beaugez | Sep 2024 | Vicksburg Voices
Vicksburg Voices to rise during city’s bicentennial New initiative will tell lesser-known stories from 200 years of Vicksburg history By Jim Beaugez In the leadup to Vicksburg’s bicentennial in 2025, a new project called Vicksburg Voices will reach into the...
