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Vicksburg National Military Park
Things To Do
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| NPS Photo | | Clay Street Visitor Center |
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The VISITOR CENTER offers general and historical information services, orientation film, exhibits on various topics of the Civil War period, bookstore, restroom facilities, and regional (city/county) information.
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| NPS Photo | | USS Cairo Gunboat Exhibit and Museum |
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The USS CAIRO MUSEUM AND GUNBOAT offers general and historical information services, exhibits on naval operations of the Civil War, bookstore, restroom facilities, and picnic area. Artifacts on display are a time capsule of life aboard an ironclad gunboat. Sailors' personal possessions, cookware, medical supplies, and weaponry are featured. A six-minute video explains the sinking, discovery, and salvage operations of the gunboat.
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Three DETACHED UNITS include the riverfront batteries at Navy Circle, South Fort, and Louisiana Circle. Across the Mississippi River is the last remaining section of Grant's Canal, where Union forces attempted to bypass Vicksburg by digging a channel through DeSoto Point. Exhibits include an historic state highway marker, bronze tablet and wayside exhibits on Williams Canal, Grant's Canal, and Black Troops at Milliken's Bend, and the Connecticut State Monument, dedicated in 2008.
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| Louisiana Circle and South Fort Units |
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| Navy Circle and Grant's Canal Units |
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| NPS Photo | | Pemberton's Headquarters |
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PEMBERTON'S HEADQUARTERS is located in historic downtown Vicksburg, commemorating the Confederate commander's operations center during the siege of Vicksburg. (This building is not presently open to the public.)
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A 16-mile TOUR ROAD parallels Union siege and Confederate defensive lines, with three interconnecting roadways, 15 designated Tour Stops, wayside markers and exhibits, short spur trails to points of interest, and several Boy Scout hiking trails including, a primitive 12-mile compass trail, and 7- and 14-mile treks that follow the park tour road.
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| Park Tour Marker and Tour Stop 6 - Thayer's Approach |
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Did You Know?
Vicksburg National Military Park is one of the most heavily monumented parks in the world with over 1330 monuments, markers, tablets, and plaques. The beauty and artistry of its monumentation prompted one Civil War veteran to call Vicksburg National Military Park, "the art park of the world."
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Last Updated: February 20, 2009 at 16:16 EST |
