Landis' Battery Missouri Artillery

Landis' Battery Missouri Artillery Regimental Monument

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Landis' Battery Missouri Artillery Regimental Monument

Monument located on Confederate Avenue, 250 yards north of the Mississippi Memorial. Also, a multiple iron tablet located outside of Vicksburg National Military Park, on former park property in the City of Vicksburg, at the southeast corner of Mission 66 and Indiana Ave. This unit was attached to Col. Francis M. Cockrell's 1st Brigade, of Brig. Gen. John S. Bowen's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg, and commanded by Lt. John C. Landis and Lt. .John M. Langan. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 407, 645, and 688; and Volume III, pages 780, 784-5, 871, and 967.]

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

In 1903, Massachusetts was the first state to erect a memorial to its soldiers who served during the Vicksburg campaign on the grounds of Vicksburg National Military Park.