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Troops in the Defense of Vicksburg - Confederate

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8th Missouri Infantry

 

This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. Mosby M. Parson's 4th Brigade of Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Division, Lt. Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes' District of Arkansas in Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Department and was commanded by Col. S.P. Burns. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume III, page 1243.] No Marker or Monument

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Last update: Friday, February 16, 2001
http://www.nps.gov/vick/mo/mo8inf.htm
Editor: G. Zeman

 

 

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