Actress Myrna Loy, one of my favorites, ignores the sign prohibiting fireworks. From Motion Picture Magazine, August, 1928.
150 years today, on 04-July-1863, Confederate Lieutenant General John C Pemberton surrendered the fortified town of Vicksburg, a key point on the Mississippi River, to Union Major General Ulysses S Grant. Grant had besieged the city for six weeks and the defenders and the civilian population had become desperate. Vicksburg, along with the just-concluded Battle of Gettysburg, was a turning point in the war.
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