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Troops in the Defense of Vicksburg - Confederate

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Guibor's Battery Missouri Artillery

 

Monument located on the north side of Confederate Avenue approximately .5 mile east of the Tennessee Memorial. A iron tablet located on the north side of Confederate Avenue approximately .5 mile east of the Tennessee Memorial, also a multiple iron tablet located outside of Vicksburg National Military Park on former park property in the City of Vicksburg at the southeast corner of Mission 66 and Indiana Avenue. This unit was attached to Col. Francis M. Cockrell's 1st Brigade of Brig. Gen. John S. Bowen's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg and was commanded by Capt. Henry Guibor (wounded 29 April 1863), Lt. William Corkery & Lt. Cornelius Hefferman. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 407, 645 & 688 and Volume III, pages 780, 784-5, 871 & 967.]

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Last update: Friday, February 16, 2001
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Editor: G. Zeman

 

 

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