Photos from Vicksburg NMBP

[SCTiger]

Just some random photos I took of Vicksburg this summer, feel free to use them.

[SCTiger]

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And a few more. It was a perfect 75 degree day back in October when I visited.

[sepoy1857]

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Thanks Greg!

Awesome pictures. My great x3 grandfather's (Horace T. Hickock - Co. C, 55th Ill) name is listed on the Illinois monument. I'd sure like to see it one day.

[IowaYank]

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I start to sweat just looking at those pictures. Man was it hot in those trenches. Great Pics!

[Gary of CA]

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Thanks. That's one major battlefield that I've yet to visit. I would love to spend a week there.

[Spewy]

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Vicksburg NMP has many beautiful monuments but the Illinois Monument is truly spectacular. I have been fortunate enough to visit there many times over the past several years and I always find something that I missed on previous visits.

[MissouriStateGuard]

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Bob,

If memory serves me you were most impressed by the Kansas monument!:wink_smil

Kip

[Spewy]

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I think the Kansas Monument is really a memorial to those killed in farming accidents. It resembles a piece of antique agricultural equipment that has been through a tornado. As the Great Grandson of a Soldier from a Kansas Regiment and a native Kansan myself I was somewhat dismayed.

[Mikevpd]

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Actually, the Kansas monument is the only one we have in the park with a plaque explaining what it means. You gotta love modern art...