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(March 2003) Soldiers' Row. Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson. After the battle, citizens of Port Gibson removed the Confederate dead from the battlefield and interred them here in Soldiers' Row
 
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(March 1993) Earlier view of Soldiers' Row
 
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(March 1993) Wintergreen Cemetery. B. F. Rasberry, CO D, 6th Mississippi Infantry, CSA, May 1, 1863. Brig Gen Benjamin G. Humphreys, 21st Mississippi Infantry, CSA, 1808-1882. Rasberry apparently died during the Battle of Port Gibson. Gen. Humphreys did not participate in the Vicksburg Campaign. He was wounded at Berryville, VA in 1864. Was elected Gov. of Mississippi from 1865-1868. These two graves are not in Soldiers Row
 
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(March 2003) Wintergreen Cemetery. The two stones at right mark Gen. Van Dorn's grave. The left stone marks the grave of his father, Peter A. Van Dorn
 
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