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4th Minnesota Infantry

Regimental Marker

Regimental Marker

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Bronze tablet on the Minnesota State Memorial, and monument located on Union Avenue 25 yards north of the Minnesota State Memorial. Also, a marker designating the assault of 22 May 1863, located on Confederate Avenue opposite the north end of the Jewish Cemetery, and a marker designating a sharpshooter's line 500 yards east of the Mississippi State Memorial on the Al Scheller hiking trail.

This unit was attached to Col. John B. Sanborn's 1st Brigade, of Brig. Gen'ls Isaac F. Quinby and John E. Smith's 7th Division, Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson's XVII Army Corps, and commanded by Col. John E. Tourtellotte.
 
Regimental Plaque, Minnesota State Memorial
Regimental Plaque, Minnesota State Memorial
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4th Minnesota Infantry Markers - Assault, May 22, 1863; Sharpshooters Line
4th Minnesota Infantry Markers - Assault, May 22, 1863; Sharpshooters Line
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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.