Sunday afternoon, April 24, 2016;
Pemberton Camp # 1354, SCV & Vicksburg Chapter # 77, UD C.
"Let the Soldiers and Citizens Speak"
(Short Bio Sketches of Citizens buried in the Civilian Portion of Vicksburg City Cemetery which completely encompasses Soldiers Rest, the Vicksburg Confederate Cemetery.)
Mrs. Patience Potticary Gamble, First Civilian Killed by Yankee Shell in Vicksburg by Mary Landin, Vicksburg Chapter # 77, UDC.
John Francis Laudersale, Soldier; by Jane Lauderdale Flowers, a Descendant.
General Loyd Tilghman, Killed Battle of Champion Hill, and lay for 40 years in the Searles Lot, before being moved (About 1903) to New York and buried in the family Plot, by Jeff Cartwright.
David Montjoy Cloud, Confederate, by Eddy Cresap
Major William Thomas Walthall, by Bryan Dabney
The Hicks Brothers, Confederates, by Edward Campbell
The Bobb - Mattingly Family, by James Earl (Sam) Price
William Rockwood & William M Fairchaild, Confederates, by Bryan Skipworth
William Washington Riser & Dr. John Adam Riser, Confederate, by Mary Landin, a descendant.
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James Earl (Sam) Price