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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22CT_blasting-their-way_Vicksburg-MS.html
Direct assaults on the Confederate fortifications on
May 19 and 22 ended in heavy Union losses. With
Vicksburg's defenses holding strong. Grant changed
tactics and ordered a formal siege. Here, at Third
Louisiana Redan,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22CF_briefly-breaching-the-line_Vicksburg-MS.html
At daybreak on May 22, 1863, hundreds of Federal cannon
opened fire. The second Union attempt to take Vicksburg
began. Three miles of Confederate fortifications were
bombarded for four hours. Then the Union guns fell silent.
Troops charged for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22BG_901-905-913-crawford-street_Vicksburg-MS.html
Middle house constructed ca. 1830 by John Lane, a member of Vicksburg's founding family.
Flanking Italianate townhouses constructed ca. 1872: 901 by a niece of Jeff. Davis; 913 by Judge Upton Young.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22BE_martha-vick-house_Vicksburg-MS.html
This Greek Revival house was built in 1830 by Martha Vick, daughter of Vicksburg founder Newit Vick. Newit and his wife Elizabeth died of yellow fever in 1819, leaving Martha to help raise her eight siblings. Martha Vick died in 1851, after which …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZTI_running-the-gauntlet_Vicksburg-MS.html
Lookouts spotted Union vessels on the Mississippi River
and sounded the alarm. Within minutes, the night sky
blazed with the light of burning cotton bales and tar
barrels. In forts like the one you are in, Confederate
gunners knew just where t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZTH_louisiana-eighth-battalion_Vicksburg-MS.html
Company A
Captain P. Grandpre
Company B
Captain R.C. Barrow
Company E
Captain Toby Hart
Compamy F
Captain T.N. McCrory
Served guns in the city
on the river-front line
March 29-July 4 1863
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZTG_louisiana-22nd-infantry_Vicksburg-MS.html
Company B
Capt. J.P. Morlot
Served guns on the line of defense
May 18-July 4, 1863
Marks' Company
Capt. Washington Marks
Served guns on the river-front line
May 18-July 4, 1863
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZTF_gibraltar-of-the-confederacy_Vicksburg-MS.html
Vital supplies of food, clothing, medicine, European-made rifles and soldiers arrived here from the south and west. They were then shipped by rail to the troops fighting in the east. By early 1863, Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Louisiana, were the la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZTE_c-s-marks-company-22d-louisiana_Vicksburg-MS.html
C.S.
Marks' Company, 22D Louisiana;
River Batteries; Army of Vicksburg.
Capt. Washington Marks.
A detachment of the company, under Lieut.
Samuel Barnes, served one 10-inch Columbiad in
this position from about May 26 to the end of
the d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZTD_teddy-roosevelt-bear-hunt_Vicksburg-MS.html
On November 12, 1902, the Washington Post reported that President Theodore Roosevelt was headed to Smedes, Mississippi, 25 miles north of Vicksburg, for a 4-day bear hunt. The article said the president "did not anticipate the pleasure of killing …