• View from Battery DeGolyer

    Vicksburg

    National Military Park Mississippi

1st Battery Minnesota Light Artillery

Regimental Monument

Regimental Monument

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Bronze plaque on Minnesota State Memorial, and monument located on Union Avenue 250 yards south of the Wisconsin Memorial, across from the McArthur bust.

This unit was attached to Maj. Thomas D. Maurice's Artillery Command, of Brig. Gen'ls John McArthur's and Thomas E.G. Ransom's 6th Division, Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson's XVII Army Corps, and commanded by Lt. Henry Hunter and Capt. William Z. Clayton.
 
1st Minnesota Battery Tablets
1st Minnesota Battery Tablets
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Regimental Plaque, Minnesota State Memorial
Regimental Plaque, Minnesota State Memorial
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Did You Know?

Did You Know?

On hearing the news of Vicksburg's surrender, President Lincoln declared, "The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea."