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    Vicksburg

    National Military Park Mississippi

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Durrive's Siege Battery, Louisiana Artillery

Durrive's Siege Battery Regimental Monument

Durrive's Siege Battery Regimental Monument

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Multiple monument located on Confederate Avenue at the Great Redoubt (Park Tour Stop 11). This unit was attached to Maj. W. C. Preston's Reserve Artillery, of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Relief, Department of the West, and commanded by Capt. E. Durrive. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, page 252 and Volume III, page 1150.]

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

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