• View from Battery DeGolyer

    Vicksburg

    National Military Park Mississippi

  • Battlefield Restoration Project

    The project is near completion on the South Loop. Contractors will be moving to the Phase III area at Graveyard Rd and Union Ave after Memorial Day. Please watch for truck traffic moving through the USS Cairo parking lot and on the tour road in this area. More »

Brig. Gen. B. H. Helm

Brig. Gen. Ben Hardin Helm, bronze bust

NPS Image

Brig. Gen. Ben Hardin Helm, bronze bust

Cost: $650 for bronze,

by Federal Government

Sculptor: Anton Schaaf

Erected: July 1914

Location: South Loop,
Kentucky Avenue, between Union and Confederate Avenues.

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

The state of Missouri contributed 27 Union units and 15 Confederate units to the Vicksburg campaign.