Mississippi Zombie Army of the Civil War - Siege of Vicksburg Walking Dead - War Between the States Undead

At the Siege of Vicksburg, Custer planned to win with help from the Undead. In one assault after another, the Union army could not capture Vicksburg, Mississippi by force of arms. They surrounded the city, with intent to starve out the Confederates.

Until his monumental failure against the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Custer had an outstanding military career. He earned the loyalty of his men by leading headlong rushes, which were always a success because he planned each one meticulously, in advance. As a young officer during the Civil War he rose rapidly in rank.

In his time medical knowledge was limited. Military surgeons did not wash their hands before performing amputations. Bacteria was unknown. There was a minor viral pandemic during the war which was overshadowed by the casualties of the war itself. From descriptions in Army hospital records, the CDC has identified the historical contagion... as the Z-Virus.

Both sides of the war between the states shared a mutual hatred of the living dead. The cursed souls were exterminated on sight, even if they were seen heading towards the enemy. This was an unspoken agreement between the North and the South. Suffer not to live, an abomination of the Lord.

Colonel Custer himself first fought the living dead, the day before the battle of Bull Run. After dispatching one such animated corpse, he took a scarlet neckerchief from the body and made it part of his uniform. Initially his men had made fun of the fancy uniform he preferred. Now they began to copy it, especially the blood red scarf.

The Mississippi River was a major supply line for the South. In the summer of 1863 Vicksburg was the last location it controlled on the river. The North brought seventy-five thousand men against only thirty-five thousand Confederates. But the city of Vicksburg was built like a fortress, easily defeating two attacks and inflicting heavy Northern casualties. The high commander of the Union troops, Ulysses S. Grant, ordered that the city be surrounded. No food could get in. He would wait them out.

Custer's cavalry was given nowhere to ride. They were permanently camped on Chickasaw Bluffs, on the northern perimeter of the city garrison. But sitting still was not in Custer's vocabulary.

Not even his superiors in the Fifteenth Corps knew of the covert military action taken by Colonel Custer on June the 22nd. He ordered the capture of six walking corpses. Breaking the unspoken rule that the undead were not to be used against the enemy, he told his men, "Let us provide target practice, for the rebels... ladies!" He then ordered the staggered release of the infected, one every hour. They were funneled through a small gap in the lines, that had been without a rebel guard for half a week.

Inside the city before the end of the week, six of the undead turned into 60, and then into 600 before the end of the next day. Faced with an unholy, internal onslaught and cut off from all means of re-supply, the Southern army ran out of ammo. They were overrun by the living dead, forcing the surrender of confederate General John Pemberton on July 4th.

Now it was the job of the Union Army to clean out the city. Even though still wearing their gray uniforms, undead Confederate soldiers, would never surrender. The tally of those infected and eliminated inside the city came to five thousand, four hundred and seventy-five, nearly doubling the total number of officially recorded casualties for the Vicksburg Campaign.

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