In and about Vicksburg

HE publishers offer no apology for the issuing of this little book. Its design is threefold. It presents to our residents a faithful, if discursive, historical sketch of our beautiful town, and thus preserves to our children a narrative of Vicksburg for the first half century of her existence. It offers to our visitors, whose numbers are annually increasing, and who will be with us by thousands during the coming Reunion of the Blue and Gray, a Guide that will enable them to learn all about us while here, and that they may preserve as a Souvenir of their visit. It, more than all, by its description of our business houses, of the resources and possibilities of the surrounding country, its amazing fertility, its means of access by rail and water, will Show to the outer world the advantages we offer to the immigration of both capital and labor. It will be circulated by thousands of copies in the great cities of the North, East and West, and thereby our city and people will be brought to the notice of the myriads who are always looking for congenial homes, and to the millions of capital always seeking safe and remunerative investments.

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