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Surrender Monument, Vicksburg, Mississippi
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Surrender Monument, where Generals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange terms for the surrender of Vicksburg, July 3, 1863. General Pemberton surrendered 31,600 men, 15 generals, 60,000 muskets and 172 cannons to General Grant.
1910
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Vicksburg Surrender Monument, Vicksburg, Mississippi
April 1902
Confederate veterans at the Vicksburg Surrender Monument, on the occasion of decorating Union soldiers' graves.
Railroad Redoubt, Vicksburg, Mississippi
1900
Railroad redoubt seen from the north showing the slope where General Grant's column charged on May 22, 1863, during the siege of Vicksburg.
Shirley House, Vicksburg, Mississippi
1900
The famous "Shirley House" or "White House," stands near the Jackson Road, which was between the Union and Confederate entrenchments during the siege of Vicksburg, May 22, 1863.
Fort Hill, Vicksburg, Mississippi
1902
Confederate "Fort Hill" on the south side of Jackson Road where the Confederate entrenchments run southward. The Siege of Vicksburg lasted from May to July 1863.
Raine Family Monument and Cemetery, Appomattox, Virginia
1925
Aerial view of the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865.
