MILITARY · HISTORICAL MARKER

U.S. Battery K,

Vicksburg, Mississippi
· 2D Illinois Light Artillery;
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Captain Benjamin F. Rodgers commanded a detachment of Battery K that served one 8-inch Columbiad in this position from about June 21 to the end of the siege on July 4, 1863.
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Vicksburg, Mississippi · United States

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