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Vicksburg National Cemetery

By Joyner, Elizabeth Hoxie

Vicksburg National Cemetery Photography

Vicksburg National Cemetery

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This volume explores the history of Vicksburg National Cemetery, reveals recent discoveries, and notes how the addition of various elements through the years helped to beautify this sacred ground. It examines the lives of a small fraction of the cemetery's approximately 18,000 interments, which include veterans of the Mexican-American and Civil Wars through the Korean War and three Vietnam memorials. Included among the interments are cemetery superintendents, a Civil War nurse, a female veteran, a member of a popular local band (the Red Tops), a former Vicksburg alderman, a Tuskegee airman, and a Vick family descendant (Vicksburg's namesake). Military service is the common thread that all of them share. This book focuses on the untold stories of those interred within the hallowed ground of Vicksburg National Cemetery. Elizabeth Hoxie Joyner--a retired employee of the National Park Service, museum curator, and author of USS Cairo in Arcadia Publishing's Images of Modern America series--has tracked down images from a variety of sources around the country to illustrate who these people were, what they did, and the sacrifices they made to protect this great nation. A burial index is also included that documents the section and number of each interment to aid in grave location.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
128
Release Date:
2024-07-08
Publication Date:
2024-07-08
Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
146716108X
ISBN13:
9781467161084
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
314 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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