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Pointe Coupee Artillery, Co. B Regimental Monument
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Multiple monument located on old Jackson Road behind the Louisiana Memorial, near the entrance to the Beulah Cemetery (private). Also an iron tablet located on the north side of Baldwin Ferry Road, in front of the Anshe Chesed Synagogue. During the Yazoo Pass Expedition, this unit was assigned as an unattached organization to Maj. Gen. William Wing Loring's Confederate Forces. Afterwards the battery 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 Capt. William A. Davidson. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume I, page 594 and Volume III, pages 783, 871, and 966.]
