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Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, waged from March 29 to July 4, 1863. The park, located in Vicksburg, Mississippi (flanking the Mississippi River), also commemorates the greater Vicksburg Campaign which led up to the battle. Reconstructed forts and trenches evoke memories of the 47-day siege that ended in the surrender of the city. Victory here and at Port Hudson, farther south in Louisiana, gave
The park includes 1,325 historic monuments and markers, of historic trenches and earthworks, a tour road, a 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 bypass Confederate artillery fire.
The ''Cairo'', also known as the "Hardluck Ironclad," was the first U.S. ship in history to be sunk by a torpedo/mine. It was recovered from the Yazoo in 1964.
The Illinois State Memorial has 47 steps, one for every day Vicksburg was besieged.
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Vicksburg National Military Park
*Main park map link: *Grant's Canal map link: *Vicksburg National Cemetery map link:
Vicksburg National Military Park, National Park Service at Google Cultural Institute
* * * * Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Vicksburg, Warren County, MS: ** ** ** ** {{Authority control Protected areas established in 1899 Battlefields of the Western Theater of the American Civil War Protected areas of Madison Parish, Louisiana National Battlefields and Military Parks of the United States Protected areas on the Mississippi River Mississippi in the American Civil War American Civil War museums in Mississippi Historic American Engineering Record in Mississippi Museums in Warren County, Mississippi National Park Service areas in Mississippi National Park Service areas in Louisiana Protected areas of Warren County, Mississippi American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in Madison Parish, Louisiana Conflict sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, Mississippi Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in the United States 1899 establishments in Mississippi Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
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control of the Mississippi River.
Battlefield
The park includes 1,325 historic monuments and markers, of historic trenches and earthworks, a tour road, a 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 bypass Confederate artillery fire.
The ''Cairo'', also known as the "Hardluck Ironclad," was the first U.S. ship in history to be sunk by a torpedo/mine. It was recovered from the Yazoo in 1964.
The Illinois State Memorial has 47 steps, one for every day Vicksburg was besieged.
Campaign against Vicksburg
* Battle of Chickasaw Bayou * Battle of Arkansas Post *Battle of Grand Gulf
The Battle of Grand Gulf was fought on April 29, 1863, during the American Civil War. As part of Major General Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg campaign, seven Union Navy ironclad warships commanded by Admiral David Dixon Porter bombarded Confederat ...
(April 29, 1863)
* Battle of Snyder's Bluff (April 29 – May 1)
* Battle of Port Gibson (May 1)
* Battle of Raymond (May 12)
* Battle of Jackson (May 14)
* Battle of Champion Hill
The Battle of Champion Hill of May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Union Army commander Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confe ...
(May 16)
* Battle of Big Black River Bridge (May 17)
* Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4)
Cemetery
The Vicksburg National Cemetery, is within the park. It has 18,244 interments (12,954 unidentified). The time period for Civil War interments was 1866 to 1874. The cemetery is not open to new interments. The cemetery has only oneCommonwealth war grave
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buried during World War II.
Grant's Canal
The remnants of Grant's Canal, a detached section of the military park, are located across from Vicksburg near Delta, Louisiana. Union Army Major General Ulysses S. Grant ordered the project, started on June 27, 1862, as part of his Vicksburg Campaign, with two goals in mind. The first was to alter the course of the Mississippi River in order to bypass the Confederate guns at Vicksburg. For various technical reasons the project failed to meet this goal. The river did change course by itself on April 26, 1876. The project met its second goal, keeping troops occupied during the laborious maneuvering required to begin the Battle of Vicksburg.Administrative history
The national military park was established on February 21, 1899, to ''commemorate the siege and defense of Vicksburg''. The park and cemetery were transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service (NPS) on August 10, 1933. In the late 1950s, a portion of the park was transferred to the city as a local park in exchange for closing local roads running through the remainder of the park. It also allowed for the construction ofInterstate 20
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. The monuments in land transferred to the city are still maintained by the NPS. As with all historic areas administered by the NPS, the park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Over half a million visitors visit the park every year.
In 2000 the Mississippi House of Representatives
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See also
* Michigan Memorial * Cedar Hill Cemetery (Vicksburg, Mississippi)References
External links
*''The National Parks: Index 2001–2003''. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior. * 601-262-2100 ** *Official NPS websiteVicksburg National Military Park
*Main park map link: *Grant's Canal map link: *Vicksburg National Cemetery map link:
Vicksburg National Military Park, National Park Service at Google Cultural Institute
* * * * Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Vicksburg, Warren County, MS: ** ** ** ** {{Authority control Protected areas established in 1899 Battlefields of the Western Theater of the American Civil War Protected areas of Madison Parish, Louisiana National Battlefields and Military Parks of the United States Protected areas on the Mississippi River Mississippi in the American Civil War American Civil War museums in Mississippi Historic American Engineering Record in Mississippi Museums in Warren County, Mississippi National Park Service areas in Mississippi National Park Service areas in Louisiana Protected areas of Warren County, Mississippi American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in Madison Parish, Louisiana Conflict sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, Mississippi Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in the United States 1899 establishments in Mississippi Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi