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    Vicksburg

    National Military Park Mississippi

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1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery F

1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery F Tablet

1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery F Tablet

NPS Photo

Monument (damaged by vandalism) and iron tablet located at Iowa Circle on old Iowa Avenue (behind present-day WalMart).

This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. William Vandever's 1st Brigade, of Maj. Gen. Francis J. Herron's unattached Division, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee and commanded by Capt. Joseph Foust.

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."