. Indiana at Vicksburg . -^ ItM^ :v>.l>U UAOA iLiiaiUJ ,-♦ ,,, , tut u4tB. iwaSwc sm^^^ Sf* i i !/:» ^AiTSa fuiou Navy Tablet—Illustrative of the 896 Tablets Placed in the Parkby the United States. and battery monuments (for 198 organizations) and about 274markers. Additional to these, Louisiana has given the park twelvemonuments (for twenty-seven organizations), costing $1,;Missouri, three monimients (two Union each for one organization,one Confederate for fifteen organizations) and three markers (, one Confederate), costing $1,; Tennessee, one monu
. Indiana at Vicksburg . -^ ItM^ :v>.l>U UAOA iLiiaiUJ ,-♦ ,,, , tut u4tB. iwaSwc sm^^^ Sf* i i !/:» ^AiTSa fuiou Navy Tablet—Illustrative of the 896 Tablets Placed in the Parkby the United States. and battery monuments (for 198 organizations) and about 274markers. Additional to these, Louisiana has given the park twelvemonuments (for twenty-seven organizations), costing $1,;Missouri, three monimients (two Union each for one organization,one Confederate for fifteen organizations) and three markers (, one Confederate), costing $1,; Tennessee, one monu-ment for six organizations, costing $171; and Virginia, one monu-ment for the Botetourt Artillery Company, costing $690; total. (21 18 Indiana at Vicksburg. $3, in most cases these gifts were made in anticipation ofand to encourage liberal appropriations by the respective legisla-tures for state memorials in the Vicksburg Park; in the case of. Park Observutioii Tuwer, Three of which have been Erectedat a cost of .$30,000. Louisiana, by parish police jury, city of New Orleans and individ-ual contributions; in all other cases, solely by individual contribu-tions. There are 444 memorials, monuments and markers in thepark or under construction, by States and as gifts; 404 Union, 40 ViCKSBURG National Military Park. 19 Confederate. About 100 more ean be reasonably expected, fromthe other States that had organizations (number stated in eachease) engaged in the operations commemorated by the park,namely: Arkansas, 15; Florida, 3; Georgia, 21; Kansas, 1; Ken-tucky, 12; Louisiana, 41; Missouri, 42; Maryland, 1; North Caro-lina, 3; South Carolina, 12; Tennessee, 29; Texas, 15; West Vir-ginia, 1. Kentucky and Missouri had troops engaged in botharmies; each, doubtless, will give the park a tine .joint memorial,Union-Confederate. Two portrait bronze statues are in plaee, both Confederate;Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, full length figure, g
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