North Union Avenue and Grant Circle are closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic for repairs. Entering these construction areas is prohibited. This work is to repair severe weather damage in 2020. The remainder of the park and tour road are open. More
Due to weather related incidents, Vicksburg National Cemetery is closed to vehicular traffic, however it is open to pedestrians. Visitor can park in the adjacent USS Cairo parking lot and walk into the cemetery.
Monument is located on Union Avenue, 100 yards west of the Wisconsin Memorial. Also a marker designating the assault of 22 May 1863, located 100' east of Confederate Avenue, south of the Missouri Memorial. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. Thomas E.G. Ransom's 2d Brigade of Brig. Gen. John McArthur's 6th Division, Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson's XVII Army Corps, and commanded by Col. Lyman M. Ward. [Refer to pages 328, 329, 354 and 356, Volume 1 of the WPA Monumentation Survey Books.]
