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Imagine the open fields in front of you covered with tents and crowded with white-bearded men. In October 1917, as the United States entered World War I, this rolling landscape played host to thousands of Vicksburg veterans. Soldiers from both si…
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Capt. Benjamin F. Rodgers. The battery served four James rifles in temporary positions on the investment line of its division from May 25. One section served two James rifles in this position from about June 22 to the end of the siege, July 4,…
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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.
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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Front The historic African American community of Marcus Bottom was an important center of early blues, jazz, and gospel music activity. Pianist Eurreal "Little Brother" Montgomery, one of the premier blues artists of the 1920s and '30…
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In 1906 the Vicksburg Business League purchased nearly sixty acres of land and grading, one quarter mile east of this site, to attract a proposed National Guard rifle range. The range, which opened in 1907, included a store house, a concrete targe…
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