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Iron tablet located on Confederate Avenue south 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. John H. Higley. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume III, pages 870 and 966.]