Cycloramas brought an 1863 struggle for a Southern stronghold to life for the postwar generation. On July 4, 1863, Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee accepted the surrender of John Pemberton’s Army of Vicks- burg and its namesake town on the Mississippi River. Both armies, even Pemberton’s defeated Rebels, must have felt some sense …
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