1st/4th Consolidated Missouri Infantry

1st/4th Consolidated Missouri Infantry Regimental Monument

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1st/4th Consolidated Missouri Infantry Regimental Monument

Two monuments located on Confederate Avenue at the Stockade Redan (Park Tour Stop 10) designating the repulses of the 19 and 22 May 1863 assaults. Also, a multiple monument to Bowen's Division located at the same site, and a multiple monument located on Old Jackson Road at the 3d Louisiana Redan (Park Tour Stop 3). 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 commanded by Col. A.C. Riley. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 645, and 688; and Volume III, pages 780, 871, and 967.]
 
1st/4th Consolidated Missouri Infantry Assault Markers
1st/4th Consolidated Missouri Infantry Assault Markers
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Did You Know?

Did You Know?

The Union siege lines and Confederate defensive lines were marked during the first decade of the 20th century by many of the veterans who fought at Vicksburg, thus making Vicksburg National Military Park one of the most accurately marked military parks in the world.