VNMP Tour Stop 10
Stockade Redan


Panoramas

  
  

(3-97) The blue signs mark Ewing's Approach to Stockade Redan. NPS 2000 Tour Guide: The Federal failures on May 19 and 22 to overrun this fortification, the principal Confederate work guarding the Graveyard Road approach to Vicksburg, were major factors in Grant's decision to avoid any more direct assaults
 
Panorama: View from Stockade Redan
 
Panorama: Ewing's Approach markers
 
Panorama: G. A. Smith's Approach near Green Redan, south of Stockade Redan

 

(3-96) Rear of redan at right, 27th Louisiana Lunette at left. The wooden stockade was across Graveyard Road near where the pickup is parked

      
 

(3-92) Graveyard Road. The blue signs at left of the road mark Ewing's Approach to the redan. The blue sign at right center of photo marks the point at which a gallery for a mine was started June 24, from left trench cavalier

 

(3-96) East face of Stockade Redan. Position Marker: C.S. Confederate Line. 36th Mississippi to June 2, 19th Arkansas from June 2

   
Confederate position tablet - Stockade Redan 
 
Union position tablet on north face - Giles A. Smith's Brigade
 
Ewing's approach         
  
Buckland's approach
  
Lightburn's approach
  
Giles A. Smith's approach
  
O. R. report of Capt. William Kossak, additional aide-de-camp, U.S. Army, Acting Engineer Officer (with Ewing Approach map)
Union position tablet on east face - Mower's Brigade
 
Union position tablet near north face - Thomas Kilby Smith's Brigade
 
27th Louisiana lunette       
  
Green redan
  
Green's brigade marker
 
O. R. reports of approaches

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