Vicksburg National Military Park
by Lydia Holly
Title
Vicksburg National Military Park
Artist
Lydia Holly
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
My visit to Vicksburg National Military Park was interesting and a bit overwhelming. To visit a place where so much death and destruction that took place in our nation's history is a hard thing... a tragedy I hope we will never repeat. I have copied and pasted information below from Wikipedia on the park for the viewer who is interested in learning more about it. The photograph is of The Illinois State Memorial which has 47 steps, one for every day Vicksburg was besieged. Rome's Temple of Minerva Medica and the Pantheon served as the model for the memorial. It was dedicated on October 26, 1906. I added a filter to give the photograph a painterly effect.
"Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, waged from May 18 to July 4, 1863. The park, located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Delta, Louisiana (flanking the Mississippi River), also commemorates the greater Vicksburg Campaign which led up to the battle. Reconstructed forts and trenches evoke memories of the 47-day siege that ended in the surrender of the city. Victory here and at Port Hudson, farther south in Louisiana, gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
The park includes 1,325 historic monuments and markers, 20 miles (32 km) of historic trenches and earthworks, a 16-mile (26 km) tour road, a 12.5-mile (20.1 km) walking trail, two antebellum homes, 144 emplaced cannons, the restored gunboat USS Cairo (sunk on December 12, 1862, on the Yazoo River), and the Grant's Canal site, where the Union Army attempted to build a canal to let their ships bypass Confederate artillery fire.
The Cairo, also known as the "Hardluck Ironclad," was the first U.S. ship in history to be sunk by a torpedo/mine. It was recovered from the Yazoo in 1964."
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June 14th, 2016
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