VNMP Tour Stop 10
Stockade Redan
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Blue signs mark
Ewing's Approach to Stockade Redan. NPS 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 the 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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(3-03) Rear of Stockade Redan from near the 27th Louisiana Lunette. A wooden stockade stood between the redan and the lunette |
(3-2011) Enlarge Graveyard Road from the redan | |
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(3-2011) Enlarge North face of the redan |
(3-2011) Enlarge East face of the redan. Red marker in background marks the line of the 36th Mississippi to June 2 and the 19th Arkansas from June 2 |
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| (3-2011) North face of Stockade Redan, Stockade site (pickup) and 27th Louisiana Lunette (3 white markers in front of pickup) |
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