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    Vicksburg

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1st Illinois Light Artillery (Cogswell's Battery)

Unit marker

Regimental marker

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Monument is located on Union Avenue approximately 0.1 mile west of Grant Avenue. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. William Sooy Smith's 1st Division, of Maj. Gen. Cadwallader C. Washburn's XVI Army Corps (Detachment), and commanded by Lt. Henry G. Eddy. (Capt. William Cogswell commanded all 1st Illinois Light artillery.) [Refer to General William Sooy Smith of Illinois.]

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.