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Identifier: vicksburgfortour01illi (find matches)
Title: Vicksburg for the tourist
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Illinois Central Railroad Company
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Publisher: (Chicago)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ense. Of these tablets, thirty-oneare of bronze and 866 of iron. Of them, 568 are Union and 329 Confederate,and they are classified by subject as follows: Historical 162, battery 197,Union trench-marker 227, Confederate trench-marker 151, Union approach-marker 136, headquarters 19, mortuary 5. The avenues, circles, and publicroads in the Park, aggregating about thirty-two miles of park roadway,are marked by 122 guideboards. The United States has mounted 114 field guns on light carriages, andfourteen heavy guns and their siege carriages, like the ones used duringthe siege and defense, making 128 mounted guns in the Park and at theold battery sites—sixty-six on the Union and sixty-two on the Confederatelines. Three reinforced concrete observation towers have been constructed:one on Logan Circle; one on the area bounded by Confederate Avenueand Observation Circle, and the third on Confederate Avenue nearAll Saints College, and on the line of Reynolds Brigade during thedefense. Thirteen
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View from C ;nue— showing place where Cincinnati sank and the ithe Yazoo River now runs into Lake Centennial

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