3d Missouri Infantry

3d Missouri Infantry Assault Marker
3d Missouri Infantry Assault Marker

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Monument located on Confederate Avenue at the Stockade Redan (Park Tour Stop 10) designating the repulse of the 22 May 1863 assault. Also a multiple monument to Bowen's Division located at the same site. 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. William R. Gause and Maj. J. K. McDowell. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 316, 407, 645, and 688; and Volume III, pages 780, 871, and 967.]

Last updated: April 14, 2015

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