. Indiana at Vicksburg . A Driveway in tiie Cemetery. The National Cemetery. The National Cemetery at Vicksburg, fronting the river andblending into the northern end of the Military Park, although notof it, was established in 1865. Its originally beautiful site havingthus had the benefit of time in which to be developed and appropri-ately softened and beautified in harmony with its sacred purpose, itstands today one of the most parklike and pleasingly impressive ofall the national cemeteries. With the possible exception of Arling-ton Heights, none can compare with it in beauty. It is certainly
. Indiana at Vicksburg . A Driveway in tiie Cemetery. The National Cemetery. The National Cemetery at Vicksburg, fronting the river andblending into the northern end of the Military Park, although notof it, was established in 1865. Its originally beautiful site havingthus had the benefit of time in which to be developed and appropri-ately softened and beautified in harmony with its sacred purpose, itstands today one of the most parklike and pleasingly impressive ofall the national cemeteries. With the possible exception of Arling-ton Heights, none can compare with it in beauty. It is certainlyone of the most magnificent cemeteries ever devoted to the inter-ment of the dead soldiers of any nation, and it is also (exceptArlington) the largest of the eighty-two established and maintainedby the general government in honor of its valorous defenders. Itcontains the graves of 16,822 Union soldiers who lost their lives innnd around Vicksburg during the Civil War, of which appalling. A Bit of Scenery in tlie Cemetery. number 12,719 are unknown. The cemetery is a masterpiece oflandscape engineering, with delightful walks and drives, with ra-vines, terraces and plateaus, and with long avenues of trees, mostlySpanish oaks, supplemented with tropical plants and picturesqueparterres of flowere. The grounds occupy what was once the sidesand crest of a forbidding blufi: overlooking the river, but which isnow a most charming series of terraces, encircling a beaatifuplateau from which is had a magnificent view, grand m extent andvariety, including the serpentine course of the glittering nver. shore fringed with verdant forest. (23)
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