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    Vicksburg

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Faulkner's Kentucky Partisan Battalion

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This unit was attached to Col. William F. Slemons' 2d Brigade, of Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers' 5th Military District (headquartered at Panola, MS), Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Department of the West, and commanded by Col. W. W. Faulkner. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume III, page 1144.]

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

The civilians of Vicksburg endured their first naval bombardment of the Civil War during the summer of 1862?