7th Texas Infantry

Texas 7TH Infantry Monument

NPS/ C. Fields

There are multiple monuments located on the north side of Confederate Avenue at the Railroad Redoubt (Park Tour Stop 13). This unit was attached to Brig. John Gregg's Brigade, of Maj. Gen. William H.T. Walker's Division, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Relief, Department of the West, and commanded by Col. H. B. Granbury. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 252, 515, and 557; and Volume III, page 1151.]