Vicksburg, Mississippi Album
Our riverboat, The American
Duchess, docked at Vicksburg,
Mississippi.
The Vicksburg Riverfront Mural
depicted the history of the city.
Vicksburg is the location of one of the most decisive battles of the
CIvil War.  It ended up to be a blockade to starve the confederacy to
surrender.  It lasted for 47 days.  There were 766 Union soldiers killed
and 3,202 Confederate soldiers killed.
The Vicksburg National Military
Park.
The Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
This Michigan Memorial is one of
1,325 monuments in the park.
Memorial to the Ohio soldiers.
Memorial to the Iowa soldiers.
Memorial to the Texas soldiers.
Memorial to Ulysses S. Grant.
Memorial to the Missouri soldiers.
The Union line during the 47 day
seige.
The area between the two sides
with the Union line on the left
and the Confederate line on the
right.
The cemetery in the park has
18,244 internments with 12,954
unidentified.  The unidentified
grave sites have the short
headstones.
Memorial to the Illinois soldiers.  
Right:  Every soldier from Illinois
has their name ingraved inside
the monument.
The USS Cairo, an ironclad ship
from the civil war was sunk and
now restored in this monument at
the park.
The Visitor Center assigns every
visitor the name and history of a
participant to the war.