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Located on North Washington Street below Fort Hill, is part of the water battery.
Photographer: Mark Hilton
Taken: May 25, 2017
Caption: Located on North Washington Street below Fort Hill, is part of the water battery.
Additional Description: This battery, located on the bank of the old Mississippi River below Fort Hill, commanded the river bend above Vicksburg. The Water Battery was one of the three most powerful batteries in the Vicksburg defenses. Shortly after daylight on May 27, 1863, the Union ironclad, U.S.S. Cincinnati, was sunk by the combined fire of the Water Battery and other batteries.
Submitted: March 28, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p420846
File Size: 4.737 Megabytes

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