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    Vicksburg

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Lt. Col. John A. Rawlins

Lt. Col. John A. Rawlins, bronze relief portrait

Lt. Col. John A. Rawlins, bronze relief portrait

NPS Image

Cost: $400 for bronze

by Federal Government

Sculptor: T.A.R. Kitson

Erected: December 1911

Location: Grant Avenue,
50 yards south of Massachusetts State Memorial

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.