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Article: Vicksburg: Part 3 The Battlefield Today
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Volume: Handbook 137
Date:1986
Part 3 The Battlefield Today
Things to See and Do
Vicksburg National Military Park was established in 1899 to preserve
the
site of the siege of Vicksburg, and was placed under the jurisdiction
of the
War Department. In August 1933 it was transferred to the National
Park
Service. Most significant areas of the Union siege line and the Confederate
defense perimeter lie within park boundaries. Sixteen miles of roads
provide
access to nearly 2,000 acres of park land featuring restored forts,
riflepits,
and battery positions, 150 artillery pieces, and more than 1,200 monuments,
markers, tablets, busts, relief portraits, ...
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