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.
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This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. W.N.R. Beall’s Brigade, of Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner’s 3d Military District at Port Hudson, LA, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton’s Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and commanded by Col. O.P. Lyles. [Refer to Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XXIV, Part 1 - Reports, page 706, and Edward Cunningham’s The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862 - 1863, page 127.]
