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Multiple monument located on Confederate Avenue at the Great Redoubt (Park Tour Stop 11). During the raids, this unit was attached to Brig. Gen. Samuel B. Maxey's Brigade, of Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner's 3d Military District at Port Hudson, LA, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. Later the battery was assigned to Brig. Samuel B. Maxey's Brigade, of Maj. Gen. Samuel G. French's Division (organized 21 June 1863), Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Relief, Department of the West, and commanded by Capt. C.E. Fenner. [Refer to Kountz, page 67; Official Record-Reports, page 706 and to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, page 252 and Volume III, page 1150.]
