1st Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted]

1st Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted] Regimental Monuments
1st Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted] Regimental Monuments

NPS Photos

Monument located on Confederate Avenue, 150 yards south of the Arkansas Memorial. Also, a multiple iron tablet designating a sortie on 22 May 1863, located on Confederate Avenue in the northeast end of the Anshe Chesed Jewish Cemetery. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. Martin E. Green's (killed 27 June 1863) and Col. Thomas P. Dockery's 2d Brigade, of Maj. Gen. John S. Bowen's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg, and commanded by Col. Elijah Gates (captured and escaped 17 May 1863). [Refer to pages 773-775 and 793, Volume 3 of the WPA Monumentation Books; and Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 645, and 688; and Volume III, pages 871 and 967.]
 
1st Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted] Tablet and Marker
1st Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted] Tablet and Marker

NPS Photos

Last updated: April 14, 2015

Park footer

Contact Info

Mailing Address:

3201 Clay Street
Vicksburg, MS 39183

Phone:

601 636-0583

Contact Us