VNMP Tour Stop 10
Stockade Redan
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(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 |
(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 |
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(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 |
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