3d Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted]

3rd Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted] Regimental Monuments

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3rd Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted] Regimental Monuments

Monument located on Confederate Avenue, 200 yards south of the Missouri 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 Lt. Col. D. Todd Samuels and Capt. Felix Lotspeich. [Refer to pages 771, 772, and 793, Volume 3 of the WPA Monumentation Books; and Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 645, 688, and 848; and Volume III, pages 871, 902, 967, 1005, and 1151.]
 
3rd Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted] Tablet and Marker
3rd Missouri Cavalry [Dismounted] Tablet and Marker
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Jefferson Davis served as a United States Congressman, Senator, Secretary of War, and war hero before being called upon to accept the Presidency of the Confederate States.