(3-02) View looking northwest across Washington St. (wartime Warrenton Road)

(3-92) National Park Service site on Washington Street north of South Fort. Commanding the river approach to Vicksburg to the south, the gun here participated in duels with ships of the Federal fleet and with Federal land-based artillery. The "Widow Blakely" was so named because it was made by an English firm by the name of Blakely and was the only Blakely in the Vicksburg defenses. During the siege the Widow Blakely was emplaced about one mile north of its present location. Site Marker: C.S., Marks' Company, 22d Louisiana; River Batteries: Army of Vicksburg, Capt. Washington Marks. A detachment of the Company, under Lieut. Samuel Barnes, served one 10-inch Columbiad in this position from about May 26 to the end of the defense, July 4, 1863

(3-95) Northwest view of the "Widow Blakely"