Battle Of Vicksburg

Civil War Figures

Today in History: Born on January 28

Anna "Ivanovna", Tsarina of Russia.

John Baskerville, inventor of the "hot-pressing" method of printing.

Jose Marti, Cuban poet and journalist, known as the "Apostle of the Cuban Revolution."

Jackson Pollock, influential abstract expressionist painter.

Accused of drunkenness at Second Bull Run even though evidence showed he suffered multiple epileptic seizures