{"id":868,"date":"2011-10-24T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:56:45","slug":"vicksburg-national-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Vicksburg National Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our way to the Alabama coast for our vacation this past summer. We spent two nights in Vicksburg, Mississippi touring the Vicksburg National Military Park<\/a> there. One of the most sobering sights is the Park’s cemetery<\/a>. It holds about 19,000 graves including 17,000 from  the Siege.<\/p>\n

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During the siege the fatalities were buried all over the place. After the war, the bodies were disinterred and brought to the cemetery. The short headstones are of unidentified bodies. The taller headstones are identified. There are  17,000 Union graves in the cemetery. Including about 10,000 casualties of the Siege of Vicksburg<\/a>. The rest were re-interred from elsewhere in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana., 13,000 are unidentified. Until 1961 when they ran out of room veterans from America’s other wars were also buried there. As the  cemetery was for Federal soldiers only, the Confederate veterans were buried in other cemeteries in Vicksburg.<\/p>\n

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(Sorry about the blurry photograph. The darker markers look kind of ghostly to me.)<\/span><\/p>\n

There are only two Confederate veterans buried there, and that was by mistake.<\/p>\n

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 In this very peaceful setting it is hard to imagine the violence and misery of the Battle of Vicksburg.<\/p>\n

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On our way to the Alabama coast for our vacation this past summer. We spent two nights in Vicksburg, Mississippi touring the Vicksburg National Military Park there. One of the most sobering sights is the Park’s cemetery. It holds about 19,000 graves including 17,000 from  the Siege. During the siege the fatalities were buried all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[700],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}