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Monumental Task
Photo by Meredith Spencer.
Jerrel Cooper with the Vicksburg National Military Park supervises as the base of the Cogswell's Battery Light Artillery monument is moved.

Vicksburg Post Article "History makes a move into national military park" by Steve Sanoski.

 

 

 

 
 From the Union siege lines looking toward the Confederate position at Great Redoubt
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Did You Know?  

Did You Know?
That on hearing the news of Vicksburg's surrender, President Lincoln declared, "The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea."

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