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(March 2003) Willis-Cowan House (1835). Crawford Street, east of the Balfour House. Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Vicksburg
headquarters during the siege. In 1890 it was purchased by Mrs. M.F. Cowan,
the wife of one of the men who helped develop the underwater torpedo that
was used by the Confederates to sink the USS Cairo
Pemberton's Headquarters is now owned by the National
Park Service and is open to the public
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(March 2011)
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Pemberton's Headquarters (right) from the northeast
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(May 2013)
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Front of Pemberton's Headquarters
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(May 2013)
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general and his staff took over the lower level of the house for office and
possibly living space, Mrs. Willis retiring to an upstairs bedroom. This
room to the right of the front entryway served as Pemberton's office; it was
here he held conferences with his subordinates, including the one that
decided upon the surrender of the city
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(May 2013)
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Through these windows
Pemberton could watch the bombardment of part of the city. The current
color scheme of the interior likely reflects, as do the electric light
sconces and chandeliers, the house's use as a bed-and-breakfast in the
latter quarter of the Twentieth Century
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(May 2013)
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The hallway leading from the
front parlor (Pemberton's office) includes a circular stairway leading to
the upstairs bedrooms, now used as office space
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