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    Vicksburg

    National Military Park Mississippi

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Pratt's Battery Texas Artillery

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This unit was attached to Col. William H. Parson's Cavalry Brigade, of Maj. Gen. John G. Walker's Division, Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's District of Western Louisiana, in Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Department, and commanded by Capt. J.H. Pratt. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume III, page 1205.]

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

On hearing the news of Vicksburg's surrender, President Lincoln declared, "The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea."