the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered |
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city | a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves |
an administrative division of a county | |