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    Vicksburg

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Brigadier General Matthew D. Ector

Brig. Gen. Matthew D. Ector, bronze bust

Brig. Gen. Matthew D. Ector, bronze bust

NPS Image

Cost (by Federal Government): $650 bronze
Sculptor: Anton Schaaf
Erected: March 1915
Location: Melborne Place, east of Texas Memorial

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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.