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Photos/text this page courtesy of
Webmaster, Brian Risher and Don Sides For any use of these photos contact Webmaster |
Links: 1. Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, MS |
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(March 2003)
Soldiers' Row. Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson.
After the battle, citizens of Port Gibson removed the
Confederate dead from the battlefield and interred them here in Soldiers'
Row |
(March 1993)
Earlier view of Soldiers' Row |
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(March 2003) Wintergreen
Cemetery Brian Risher photo |
(March 1993) Wintergreen
Cemetery. B. F. Rasberry, CO D, 6th Mississippi
Infantry, CSA, May 1, 1863. Brig Gen Benjamin G. Humphreys, 21st
Mississippi Infantry, CSA, 1808-1882. Rasberry apparently died during the
Battle of Port Gibson. Gen. Humphreys did not participate in the Vicksburg
Campaign. He was wounded at Berryville, VA in 1864. Was elected Gov. of
Mississippi from 1865-1868. These two graves are not in Soldiers Row |
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(March 2003)
Wintergreen Cemetery. The two stones at
right mark Gen. Van Dorn's grave. The left stone marks the grave of his
father, Peter A. Van Dorn |
(March 2003) Van Dorn's grave Photo by Don Sides |
