F 349 .V6 129 Copy 1 VICRSBURG B5 TOURIST VICKSBJU4* T r E TCXJRIST MAiiuhAL puwtasiy pasM ZifznzE D?.-Sti2 nihroTus sir*, ;j>xj , J£>j\i / :3 Aiosr littzsissntis tU^tUHl SAL JiJ SlDZiMS m M£ i'iJsnoJtlAL ■Ally vLZAzJinsvs j;-jp;i£5 5jy5 o? ALL TAZ llAflvnAL &£M£J£jU23 a err/ **■ 7 L Compliments of ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD Passenger Department VICKSBURG FOR THE TOURIST VICKSBURG FOR THE TOURIST. ICKSBURG, MISS., located on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad about half way between Memphis and New Orleans, and reached from the north through Memphis by the Illinois Central Railroad, is interesting for the tourist, the historian, the artist, the patriot and the soldier. The city itself is topo- graphically and architecturally picturesque, and in common with most Southern cities of ante-bellum days, exhibits a delightful blending of the old regime with the improvements of the present. It contains the largest and one of the most beautiful park-like national cemeteries, and what is the greatest attraction of all, the National Military Park. Automobile and carriage service from the station and hotels to the two parks. THE VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK. This Park, constructed by the United States Government, under the direction of a commission appointed for the purpose, is in commemoration of the campaign siege and defense of Vicksburg; which campaign siege and defense, including events leading directly up to it, extended over a period from March 29th to July 4th, 1863. *•*?•' ■ mm- HE general plan and scope of the Park is such that it is an intensely interesting and instructive place to visit. First of all, the picturesqueness of the region in which it is located makes the Park well worth seeing, situated as it is in a rolling country of beautiful valleys and high hills overlooking the majestic waters of the Mississippi River. As a whole, the arrangement of the Park Avenues, aided by the topography of the Park, and the peculiar nature of the conflict it commemorates, enables one to follow the story of the siege and defense in a clear and simple manner, with the additional charm of rugged landscape features presenting themselves at every turn. The story will be found engrossing and perfectly easy to follow, for the reason that unlike any other engagement of the Civil War the assaults at the Siege of Vicksburg were few, each side learning to respect the prowess of the other early in the struggle. Hence, with some few exceptions, the conflict was confined on the part of the Federals to a gradual vise-like closing-in through the agency of their artillery and by approaches, or saps, and to a heroic and brilliant defense on the part of the Confederates. Therefore, the operations were along clearly defined and, generally speaking, parallel lines, with no radical shifting and intermingling of positions, such as occurred at Shiloh and Chickamaugua, to confuse the visitor of this later generation in the reading of these field-pages of the nation's history. Five Portrait Tablet ol Brig. Gen. Abraham Buford.C.S.A ■ Portrait Tablet of Brig.Gen. Joseph A.Mower.U.S.V. 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In short, for picturesque beauty and historic interest, no other battlefield of the country surpasses the one included in the Vicksburg National Military Park. It contains 1,323 acres, and practically includes the battle lines of the two opposed armies during the investment of Vicksburg, May 18-July 4, and all the fighting ground between them. Every part of the battlefield is made accessible by the park roadways, which are as follows: Two principal avenues, Union and Confederate, bounding the main body of the Park and the most important part of the battlefield on the outside and inside, respectively; eleven secondary avenues (Grant, Pemberton, Sherman, Connecting, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) ; and thirty short circles (Johnston, Logan, Maloney, Navy, Observation, Pemberton, Sherman, Tilgh- man Memorial, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois Memorial, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin). Largely, the secondary avenues and the circles were constructed to give individuality and increased distinction to the sites for the State Memorials and the Statues that have been or will be placed in the Park. Seven s> ^ -^X'-^ 1 In action on Union Gunboat, Grand Gulf 4 Capturing Four Guns at Champion's Hill * 39 SK £*-f 3 Charging the Confederate Intrenchments at Jackson 6 The Assault on Railroad Redoubt PANELS OF BATTLEFIELD PICTURES - IOWA STATE MEMORIAL Vt Eight JUL Site of Interview between Generals Grant and Pemberton, afternoon of July 3, 1863 — on Pemberton Avenue EN SUCH memorials are finished (Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, T Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin), and appropriations have been made for three — Alabama, Michigan and Missouri. To June 1, 1911, fifteen states have made appropriations for the Vicksburg Park, aggregat- ing $847,000. Indiana's and Ohio's, each, provide generously for regimental and battery monuments and markers, but not for a State Memorial. Each of the memorials now in the Park is beautiful and appropriate, but specific mention is made of three of them to call attention to features of special interest that they possess: The inscription on the Pennsylvania Memorial is the following appro- priate and noble sentiment: "here brothers fought for their principles, here heroes died for their country. and a united people will forever cherish the precious legacy of their noble manhood." The Illinois Memorial is a beautiful marble dome, bearing on its inner wall the names, more than 35,000, of the soldiers of that State who then belonged to a command engaged in the Vicksburg campaign and siege. It is the noblest and most appropriate battlefield memorial in the world. A feature of Iowa's Memorial is its artistic and stirring bronze battle- field pictures, six, each in a separate panel. They are as follows, taken in order as the visitor faces the memorial: Nine fanriMrfifn i i^H'ni^rir,, Iowa Marker — illustrative of the 59 Markers placed in Park by the State Ten HE first panel on the left shows one gun in action on one of the Union gunboats, in the bombardment of Grand Gulf, April 29th. The second panel — the 99th Illinois capturing two guns (one shown) of the Botetourt (Virginia) Battery in the battle of Port Gibson, May 1st, the 21st, 22d and 23d Iowa immediately at the left on the 99th Illinois and not shown. The third panel — the 17th Iowa charging, on the double quick, the Confederate intrenchments at Jackson, May 14th, with the 6th Wisconsin battery on the run to keep even with the infantry line. The next panel to the right, the center one, is a black marble slab on which are inscribed the thirty-two Iowa commands engaged at Vicksburg in 1863, and their respective casualties. The fourth panel from the left shows the 24th Iowa capturing four guns (one shown) of Waddell's Alabama battery, in the battle of Champion's Hill, May 16th, and ^he three Confederates fighting their gun to the last extremity, are the heroes of the series of battle-pictures in the memorial. The fifth panel — the 23d Iowa in line of battle, on the double quick, charging the Confederate intrenchments at Big Black River Bridge, May 17th. The sixth panel on the right shows the placing of the flag of the 22d Iowa on the parapet of the Confederate Railroad Redoubt, in the assault, May22d. An ideal equestrian figure of a soldier bearing a flag will be placed on the pedestal now in front of the center of this Iowa Memorial to round out its completeness. Eleven Twelve y\ ""■> ■ V) ■ ■ UUKtliL'UlAll; 1 : U»1VIUU VA.ULU1. BlVekAL'li tUiLVUC UK llli/A'l£\7J.U3 LU3/U2. II, if UMUlih. Hili LUiL IL.L.LU1MUA 10 lit UlClil. M.L- FAU.1 Ul ILL MUCkAUli 1l' 111 LLV1 Ulct 1.(30!. 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Of them, 568 are Union and 329 Confederate, and they are classified by subject as follows: Historical 162, battery 197, Union trench-marker 227, Confederate trench-marker 151, Union approach- marker 136, headquarters 19, mortuary 5. The avenues, circles, and public roads in the Park, aggregating about thirty-two miles of park roadway, are marked by 122 guideboards. The United States has mounted 114 field guns on light carriages, and fourteen heavy guns and their siege carriages, like the ones used during the siege and defense, making 128 mounted guns in the Park and at the old battery sites — sixty-six on the Union and sixty-two on the Confederate lines. Three reinforced concrete observation towers have been constructed: one on Logan Circle; one on the area bounded by Confederate Avenue and Observation Circle, and the third on Confederate Avenue near All Saints' College, and on the line of Reynold's Brigade during the defense. 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Of them, 424 are by states, 22 were gifts, and 22 are by the United States; and about 100 more can reasonably be expected. In the main body of the Park the lines of the opposed armies are plainly shown without confusion or uncertainty, by the monuments, markers, tablets, and, in a very realistic sense, the battle is again set in order. However, the work will not be finished until the bronze portrait of each brigade, division, corps and army commander, Union and Confederate, engaged in the operations commemorated, has been placed in the Park, each at an appropriate site in relation to the line of the officer's command during the siege and defense. Largely, they must come as donations, and an inspiring opportunity is thereby offered to veterans of the two armies, their friends, and wealthy Americans. Already, as gifts, four statues, two busts and twenty-one reliefs (tablets with portrait above and inscription below) are in place or under contract. In the same way, two equestrians, one bust and three reliefs are assured for the Park. Fifteen Sixteen JrCj^noov THE VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY' PARK AND VICINITY SHOWING LINES OF SIEGE AND DEFENSE OF THE CITY. NATIONAL CEMETERY IN B ICKGROUND -JXi A. Battery Tablet and Gun, illustrating the fact that "the battle is again set in order" by the monuments, markers, guns and tablets that have been placed in the Vicksburg National Military Park AKEN as a whole, while some little time will yet elapse before Tthe full fruition of the Park will be realized in the matter of complete monument or memorial representation of all the states, both North and South, that had organizations in the field at Vicksburg, in general scope it is at the present time more than ready for the visitor. Its broad macadamized boulevards, its impressive scenery, its generous display of monumental features and many other accessories are already there. One can but be greatly interested, and impressed with a deep patriotic sentiment, by scanning the object page of one of the Nation's most interesting historical incidents as portrayed by this Vicksburg National Military Park. For those interested in the detail story of the siege and defense of Vicksburg there has been published by the Passenger Department of the Illinois Central another booklet entitled "Siege and Defense of Vicksburg," and which is for free distribution. In it are given an epitome of the cam- paign, siege and defense, maps, facts and figures as to the troops, by states, engaged therein; also the complete tablet inscriptions to be found in the Park, these of themselves being a most exhaustive history of the famous siege and defense. The booklet contains military maps, and is generously illustrated. It will be found particularly interesting to old soldiers and to students of the Civil War. Seventeen JUL. P2i v General Grant's Headquarters, marked by flagstaff, on Grant Avenue Monument 1 1th Wisconsin, Monument 21st, 22d and 23d Iowa, Missouri Gun, Tablets and Trench-Marker Nineteen Twenty-two J1__J. L V vRSjFB flaf^jSP6ept%^ * " •4 BS^'jjBfc* 3K^pfly^y^,> * £ -?» S ?!*V.'- - ' 4K' .3 &m9 f. i ±lwf .' - „••; The National Cemetery — Officers' Circle The National Cemetery — park-like in aspect THE NATIONAL CEMETERY. THE National Cemetery at Vicksburg, fronting the river and blending into the northern end of the Military Park, although not of it, was established in 1865. Its originally beautiful natural site haying thus had the benefit of time in which to be developed and appropriately softened and beautified into harmony with its sacred purpose, it stands to-day one of the most park-like and pleasingly impressive of all the national cemeteries. With the possible exception of Arlington Heights, none can compare with it in general beauty. It certainly is one of the most magnificent cemeteries ever devoted to the interment of the dead soldiers of any nation, and it is also (except Arlington) the largest of the eighty-two established and maintained by the General Government in honor of its valorous defenders. It contains the graves of 16,822 Union soldiers who lost their lives in and around Vicksburg during the Civil War, of which the appalling number of 12,719 are "unknown." The cemetery is a masterpiece of landscape engineering, with delightful walks and drives, with ravines, terraces and plateaus, and with long avenues of trees, mostly Spanish oaks, supplemented with tropical plants and picturesque parterres of flowers. The grounds occupy what was once the sides and crest of a forbidding bluff overlooking the river, but which is now a most charming series of terraces, encircling a beautiful plateau from which is had a magnificent view, grand in extent and variety, including the serpentine course of the glittering river, its opposite shore fringed with verdant forest. Twenty-five Twenty-six THE CITY OF VICKSBURG. ICKSBURG is located on the Yazoo and on the Mississippi V rivers about half way between Memphis and New Orleans. Until 1876 it was wholly on the Mississippi, the river previous to that time making a bend that formed a tongue of land opposite the city, the stream rounding the end of this tongue about two miles above the city. In the year mentioned the river cut across the base of this tongue, making an island of it, and relegating to the old channel only the back waters of the stream. Thus was formed what was called Lake Centennial, the waters of which, as a rule insufficient for steamboat purposes, became the only ones that laved the city's once busy levee. In recent years, however, the United States Government cut a canal from the Yazoo River across to the upper end of the old channel, dammed the west outlet to Lake Centennial, and let the waters of the Yazoo through the old channel, thus restoring a river front to the heart of the city. From the main road in the southern part of the city, which road skirts the river along the high bluff overlooking the surrounding country, the tourist not only has a fine scenic attraction before him, but a particularly clear panorama of this interesting feature of Yicksburg's relation to the waters mentioned. It is one of the show features of the place. Vicksburg's history goes back to the time of the French and the Spanish occupation of the country, but derives its name from the family of Yicks, the founder of which was Newit Vick, a planter and Methodist clergyman, who died in 1819 at his home a few miles cast of the present site of the city, leaving thirteen children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Twenty-seven Twenty-eight N 1860 the population of Vicksburg was about five thousand, and it was then, as now, a prosperous, and the principal com- mercial city of the State. Each decade has shown a generous increase in its population, it now having 21,000. It is one of the largest cotton markets in the country, and has other impor- tant business interests, including some considerable manufactur- ing. The city occupies the sides, summit and valleys of a range of hills which attain a height of two hundred feet above sea level. Hence it is extremely picturesque, its topography lending effect to its architectural features. Its principal business section is along the levee, and on the streets running parallel and up from it, the residence portion being on the higher terraces. In the latter are architectural features of more than ordinary interest. The modern city hall and the ancient courthouse, their artistic lines set off to the best possible effect by their commanding sites, are each handsome types of their respective day and generation. In the residence streets the same delightful contrasts will be found, for as has already been suggested in these pages, the city contains a blending of the best of the olden days with enough of the modern types to indicate its substantial prosperity of to-day. To the tourist, however, the former or the older characteristics of the homes, will probably prove the most interesting. This for the reason that to an extent not commonly found in old Southern cities, the family mansions of before the war have been kept up in Vicksburg, and still suggest all their original dignity and beauty of design. Twenty-nine Thirty GAIN, these old homes were as a rule in style somewhat different from the typical old Southern mansion. They bordered broadly Aon the Queen Anne style, but more generally of their designs it might be said that they were characteristic of Vicksburg alone, although none the less attractive on that account. Many rich historical associations cluster around these homes and through the business district of the city, associations of interest to those having the time and inclination to inquire into them through a guide. In this connection it will be interesting to note that as a part of the plan of the National Military Park Commission, tablet inscriptions have been placed on the walls of buildings in the city having historical connection with the siege and defense of Vicksburg. Territorially, the city is not large, and those wishing only a general view of it can accomplish their desire in a few hours by automobile, carriage or the street cars. The latter are modern electrics; the city has electric light and water systems and is fully up to date in matters affecting the tourists, including attractive retail stores. The hotel facilities at Vicksburg are now unsurpassed for a city of its size, they having been modernized and brought up to more than an accept- able standard for the Northern tourists who are going in increasing numbers, every year, to Vicksburg, to visit the National Military Park. The hotels are The National Park, run on the European plan, with rooms from $1.00 per day up, and the Carroll, run on the American plan, rates $2.50 per day to $4.00 per day \Thirty-one VICKSBURG MISSISSIPPI Is located on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, about half way between Memphis and New Orleans, and is reached direct from New Orleans and through Memphis by ILLINOIS CENTRAL THROUGH TRAINS TALLAHASSEE l - / ^. > ' JACKSONVILLE I Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville Any ticket agent of the Illinois Central and of Connecting Lines can sell you a ticket to Vicksburg and Advise Ycu as to Tourist Fares and Train Time S. G. Hatch, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago H. J. Phelps, Gen'l Pass'r Agent, Chicago G. H. Bower, Gen'l Pass'r Agent, Memphis "Go South Young Man" Thirty-two K— tr- CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ^RDUTE VALLEY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 542 624 8