May 12, 1863 to July 4, 1863

WARREN, Mississippi

Vicksburg, Civil War, Waul's Texas Legion, May 22, 1863, Colonel T.N. Waul

The morning officially began at 10:00 AM as the war-weary men of Waul’s Texas Legion lined up shoulder to gray-clad shoulder in Vicksburg, Mississippi; the perfect time for brunch.  But it would forever remain in the minds of the Confederates as the beginning of a fight for their everything-- land, honor, freedom, liberty, property—at the one site most important to hold for any chance of Confederate...