8/12/11} Vicksburg} -- Vicksburg, MS, U.S.A. --Mari Miller Theobald 6, and her mother Lindsey check out the flood waters in downtown Vicksburg s the water fills the old Yazoo Mississippi Valley RailRoad Station. Mrs. Theobald tries to explain to her daughter Marithat this she is seeing history in the making, this flood is worse than the 1927 flood. Members of The Corp of Engineering and Col. Eckstein hold a press conference on the Yazoo backwater levee, detailing how they are trying to contain the flood water from the Mississippi River from flooding over 1.2 million acres of farm land and damaging thousands of homes and disrupting thousands of people. Vicksburg a riverfront town steeped in war and sacrifice, gets set to battle an age-old companion: the Mississippi River. The city that fell to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army after a painful siege in 1863 is marshalling a modern flood-control arsenal to keep the swollen Mississippi from overwhelming its defenses. PHOTO©SUZIALTMAN.COM.Photo by Suzi Altman, Freelance.