I think I have mentioned it before. Vicksburg is lousy with the historic markers. They appear in parking lots, on roadsides, in grassy knolls, and in clearings in the woods.
They appear on every street corner, too. Every time I think I have seen all of them, another pops out of the woodwork, so to speak. So as I am walking around the corner from the office this week, I ran across another - embedded in the wall of a building.
This one is a Confederate marker (hence the red background), commemorating the presence of the Vaiden Battery, which faced the river (the Union forces were approaching from the opposite side of the city). The marker is embedded in the wall on Clay Street, just below Washington Avenue, in the heart of downtown.
"The company served its pieces on the city front from May 18 to May 23, when most of them were ordered to the rear line of defense. One section, under Capt S.C. Bains, served two 6-pounder guns on the city front to the end off the defense, July 4, 1863."
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