Gibraltar of the Confederacy -- Vicksburg MS
N 32° 18.762 W 090° 54.025
15S E 697659 N 3577033
A National Park Service historic marker at Navy Circle, part of the Vicksburg National Military Park in this historic city.
Waymark Code: WMMKQ0
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2014
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"GIBRALTAR OF THE CONFEDERACY
Vital supplies of food, clothing, medicine, European-made rifles, and soldiers arrived here from the south and west. They were then shipped by rail to the troops fighting in the east. By early 1863, Vicksburg and Port Hudson Louisiana were the last remaining Confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River.
The high bluffs that you are on provided a first-rate perch for powerful Confederate cannon that kept Federal gunboats at bay. Union leaders knew they had to take this city. Control Vicksburg and they would control the Mississippi – splitting the Confederacy and crippling its supply line."
Date Installed:: 2000
Organization that placed the object:: National Park Service
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