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The park includes 1,325 historic monuments and markers, 20 miles (32 km) of historic trenches and earthworks, a 16-mile (26 km) tour road, a 12.5-mile (20.1 km) walking trail, two antebellum homes, 144 emplaced cannons, the restored gunboat USS Cairo (sunk on December 12, 1862, on the Yazoo River), and the Grant's Canal site, where the Union Army attempted to build a canal to let their ships ...
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In 1904, the government of Illinois appropriated over $190,000 (20% of their budget for that year) for the erection of a monument on the battlefield, now known as the Vicksburg National Military Park. [3] The monument was designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney and sculptor Charles Mulligan. Jenney had previously served in the Union Army ...
The Vicksburg National Military Park lies about 41 miles from Jackson, so a road trip here will clock in under an hour. The park contains nearly 1400 monuments and markers taking visitors through ...
City or town Description 1: Confederate Avenue Steel Arch Bridge: Confederate Avenue Steel Arch Bridge: September 5, 1990 (#88002483) December 17, 2002: Spans Jackson Rd. in Vicksburg National Military Park: Vicksburg: Demolished by the National Park Service in June 2002 [10] 2: Sprague: Sprague: April 15, 1977 (#77000795) May 15, 1987 ...
In the Vicksburg military park, which is dotted with more than 1,400 monuments, markers and tablets and is one of the largest tourist attractions in Mississippi, drawing visitors from around the ...
Natchez National Historical Park: 3: Shiloh National Military Park (shared with Tennessee) 4: Tupelo National Battlefield: 5: Vicksburg National Military Park: Includes Vicksburg National Cemetery; shared with Louisiana.
National Military Park, National Battlefield, National Battlefield Park, and National Battlefield Site are four designations for 25 battle sites preserved by the United States federal government because of their national importance. The designation applies to "sites where historic battles were fought on American soil during the armed conflicts ...