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Memorials

The Union State Memorials at Vicksburg National Military Park

There are over 1300 monuments, tablets, statues, and markers of all types at Vicksburg National Military Park (as well as some outside the park boundaries). These monuments mark positions of individual regiments, honor unit...

War

General Alvin P. Hovey’s Division At the Battle of Champion Hill

Key Battle in the Vicksburg Campaign After crossing the Mississippi River at Bruinsburg, Mississippi on April 30th, the Union Army of Major General Ulysses S. Grant marched inland in a northeasterly direction.  Grant’s forces...

Modern Events

Indiana’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration

The state of Indiana furnished  over 210,000 men for the Union Army and Navy in the Civil War, and over 24,400 of these men died in the war.  One of the more famous Indiana...