14-Mile Trail - Answer Sheet
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1. Pemberton Circle - What are the reported casualties of the Confederate Army during the 2. Mississippi Monument - Who commanded Company C? 3. Tilghman Monument - What was the date that he was killed? 4. Louisiana Monument/Great Redoubt - The Artillery Units in defense of the Fort were from what Companies? 5. 3rd Louisiana Redan - During this 24-hour battle a Confederate Colonel and a Union Lt. Colonel 6. Arkansas Monument - To whom is the monument dedicated? 7. Missouri Monument - To whom is the monument dedicated? 8. Stockade Redan - What was the name of the Major of the 36th Mississippi Infantry who was killed on May 22, 1863, in defense of the Stockade Redan? 9. Fort Hill - What were the casualties of the defenders of Fort Hill during the Siege of Vicksburg? 10. National Cemetery - What is the area of the cemetery and when was it established? 11. U.S.S. Cairo - In what river was the Cairo sunk and what sank it? 12. US Navy Monument - What Union forces occupied this position and who were the Commanding Officers? 13. Grant's Circle - What were the casualties suffered by the Union and Confederate Armies? 14. Wisconsin Monument - To whom is the monument dedicated? What is the date of the siege? 15. Illinois Monument - Whose names are engraved above the large marble plaque on the inside of building directly opposite the entrance? 16. Union Battery - What Union forces occupied this position and who were the Commanding Officers? 17. Michigan Monument - What is the wording of the dedication? 18. Minnesota Monument - Who commanded the 1st Brigade of the 7th Division, 17th Army Corps during the Campaign and Siege of Vicksburg? |
Did You Know?
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.