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11th Louisiana Infantry [African Descent]

United States African Brigade Tablet

United States African Brigade Tablet

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This unit was attached to Col's Isaac F. Shepard's (under arrest at the time of the battle of Milliken's Bend), Hermann Lieb's (wounded 7 June 1863), and Lt. Col. Charles J. Paine's African Brigade, District of Northeast Louisiana, under Brig. Gen'ls Jeremiah C. Sullivan (relieved 3 June 1863) and Elias S. Dennis, and commanded by Col. Edwin W. Chamberlain and Lt. Col. Cyrus Sears. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume III, page 1205, and also Shepard of Missouri and Dennis of Illinois.]

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Confederate Headstones, Vicksburg National Cemetery

There are at least three known Confederates buried in Vicksburg National Cemetery, two of whom have graves designated by Confederate headstones.