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    Vicksburg

    National Military Park Mississippi

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Wade's Battery Missouri Artillery

Wade's Battery Missouri Artillery Regimental Monument

Wade's Battery Missouri Artillery Regimental Monument

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Monument located outside of Vicksburg National Military Park, on former park property in the City of Vicksburg, on the north side of Mission 66, approximately 0.1 mile south of Indiana Avenue. 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 Col. W. Wade (killed in action 29 April 1863) and Lt. R. C. Walsh. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 645, and 688; and Volume III, pages 784-5, 871, and 967.]

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

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