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(3-96) Iowa Avenue, south of Confederate Avenue

Site Marker: C.S. Company B. 22d Louisiana: River Batteries: Army of Vicksburg. Capt. J. P. Morlot. A detachment of the company under Lieut. George H. Tardy served one 6-pounder gun in this position from May 18 to the end of the defense, July 4, 1863

(3-97) Headquarters of Confederate Maj. General Martin L. Smith. Vicksburg Fire Department Sub-Station, north of the Old Court House Museum

(3-2011) Enlarge Castle Hill. Southeast of the main Vicksburg fire station, view looking west

Castle Hill, circa 1863. Note the Union soldiers camped on the lawn
 
Photo courtesy of Old Court House Museum Collections, Vicksburg, MS

(3-96) Looking north on Fort Hill Drive (wartime Yazoo City Road) at crossing of Glass Bayou