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This unit was carried as a miscellaneous unit, attached to Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg, and commanded by Capt. E. B. Martin. The Official Records make no reference to the City Guards, aside from enumeration. [Refer to page 666, Volume 3 of the WPA Monumentation Books and Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume III, pages 873 and 968.]