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    Vicksburg

    National Military Park Mississippi

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2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery F

Unit Marker

Unit Marker

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Monument is located Union Avenue 100 yards southwest of the Wisconsin Memorial. Also iron tablets located 300' west of Park Tour Stop #4 and in the mowed bay 300' east of Confederate Avenue north of Glass Bayou. [east of 37th & 38th Mississippi trench marker.] This unit attached to Brig. Gen. John McArthur's 6th Division, Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson's XVII Army Corps and was commanded by Capt. John W. Powell.
 
Unit position tablet
Unit position tablet
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Did You Know?

Did You Know?

Vicksburg National Military Park is one of the most heavily monumented parks in the world with over 1330 monuments, markers, tablets, and plaques.  The beauty and artistry of its monumentation prompted one Civil War veteran to call Vicksburg National Military Park, "the art park of the world."