Commemorate the 1994 maiden deployment of USS Vicksburg (CG-69) with this exclusive sweatshirt. A Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser commissioned on November 14, 1992 and homeported in Mayport, Florida, Vicksburg is named for the Siege of Vicksburg (1863), the decisive Civil War campaign in which Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant captured the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River — splitting the Confederacy and giving the Union control of the entire river. Her 1994 maiden deployment marked the beginning of an active service life that would include multiple Mediterranean and Middle East deployments. This sweatshirt honors the ship and the historic campaign that inspired her name.