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    Vicksburg

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43d Tennessee Infantry

Tennessee Cavalry/Infantry Units Monument

Tennessee Cavalry/Infantry Units Monument

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Multiple monument located outside of Vicksburg National Military Park on former park property in the city of Vicksburg, on the east side of Confederate Avenue approximately 0.1 mile south of Mulvihill Street. Also, a trench line marker located on the south side of Confederate Avenue approximately 0.1 mile south of Hall's Ferry Road. This unit was attached to Col. Alexander W. Reynolds' 4th Brigade, of Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg, and commanded by Col. James W. Gillespie. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, page 644; and Volume III, pages 872 and 965.]
 
43d Tennessee Infantry Tablet
43d Tennessee Infantry Tablet
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Graves in Vicksburg National Cemetery

Vicksburg National Cemetery is the largest internment of Civil War dead in the nation.  It is the burial place for nearly 17,000 Union soldiers.