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Monument located on Confederate Avenue near the Mississippi Memorial. Three iron tablets located on Confederate Avenue north of the Mississippi Memorial. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. John C. Moore's 2d Brigade, of Maj. Gen. John H. Forney's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg, and commanded by Col. William S. Barry and Lt. Col. C.R. Jordan. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume I, pages 226 and 593; and Volume III, pages 870 and 966.]