Administered by United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Washington District of Columbia
Administered by Vicksburg National Military Park 3201 Clay Street, Box 349 Vicksburg Mississippi 39180
Located Vicksburg National Military Park Union Avenue, 160 feet past Arch Vicksburg Mississippi
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1993.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MS7038, 1989.
Vicksburg National Military Park, 1988.
Image on file.
(On right side of bust:) Theo. A. R. Kitson, Sc (On left side of bust:) Gorham Co. Founders, N.Y. (On lower front of bust:) BURBRIDGE (On upper bronze plaque on front of base, raised:) STEPHEN C. BURBRIDGE/BRIG. GENERAL U.S. VOLS/COMMANDING FIRST BRIGADE/10TH DIVISION 13TH CORPS (On lower bronze plaque on front of base, raised:) COL 26TH KENTUCKY INF AUG 27, 1861/BRIG GENERAL U.S. VOLS. JUNE 9, 1862/BVT MAJOR GEN OF VOLS JULY 4, 1864 signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A bust of Brigadier General Stephen C. Burbridge, dressed in a military uniform and wearing a goatee, placed atop a two-sectioned base with inscribed plaques on the upper front.
