Vicksburg is a city within the state of Mississippi. An important city that is located 60 miles northeast of this location is Redwood Mississippi.
Yazoo City Mississippi.
Mobile, Alabama is about 200 miles from Vicksburg, Mississippi.
In the context of the American Civil War, the important city 40 miles east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, is Jackson. Capital of Mississippi and an important assembly-point for Confederate troops, it was in 1862 and 1863 a key position for both the Union and Confederate armies in the struggle to control Vicksburg to the west.
Jackson, MS, the state capital, is about 40 miles due east of Vicksburg. The smaller city of Clinton, MS is about 30 miles due east of Vicksburg (so don't change the question). Jackson is about 45 driving miles east of Vicksburg.
Monroe, LA
The capital city, Jackson MS, is located on the Pearl River, about 40 miles east of Vicksburg MS.
Clinton, MS is about 30 miles east of Vicksburg. Jackson, MS is about 40 miles east of Vicksburg. The town of Morton, MS is about 60 miles east of Vicksburg, but only gets asked about because someone miscopies the numbers 30 and 40.
About 70 miles northeast of London.
Jabalpur
Laurel, MD
The city of Clinton MS is about 30 miles east. The capital, Jackson MS, is about 40 miles east.Clinton Mississippi
Vicksburg was so important because you had to control that city to control the Mississippi River, other wise no matter what else the union controlled, the Mississippi was worthless.