3d Missouri Infantry

3d Missouri Infantry Assault Marker

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3d Missouri Infantry Assault Marker

Monument located on Confederate Avenue at the Stockade Redan (Park Tour Stop 10) designating the repulse of the 22 May 1863 assault. Also a multiple monument to Bowen's Division located at the same site. This unit was attached to Col. Francis M. Cockrell's 1st Brigade, of Brig. Gen. John S. Bowen's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg, and commanded by Col. William R. Gause and Maj. J. K. McDowell. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 407, 645, and 688; and Volume III, pages 780, 871, and 967.]

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.