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    Vicksburg

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Col. Lawrence S. Ross

Col. Lawrence S. Ross, bronze relief portrait

Col. Lawrence S. Ross, bronze relief portrait

NPS Image

Cost: $200 for bronze,

by Federal Government

Sculptor: Anton Schaaf

Erected: September 1915

Location: Confederate Avenue,
100 yards west of Stouts Bayou Bridge

Did You Know?

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.