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Troops in the Defense of Vicksburg - Confederate

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1st Missouri Cavalry (Dismounted)

 

Monument located on Confederate Avenue 150 yards south of the Arkansas Memorial. Also a multiple iron tablet designating a sortie on 22 May 1863 located on Confederate Avenue in the northeast end of the Anshe Chesed Jewish Cemetery. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. Martin E. Green's (killed 27 June 1863) & Col. Thomas P. Dockery's 2nd Brigade of Maj. Gen. John S. Bowen's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg and was commanded Col. Elijah Gates (captured & escaped 17 May 1863). [Refer to pages 773-775 & 793, Volume 3 of the WPA Monumentation Books and Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 645 & 688 and Volume III, pages 871 & 967.]

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

 

 

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