Historical Marker
Brookhaven Light Artillery
Brookhaven, Lincoln County · Mississippi
Erected 2002
A descendant who helped recover the battery's record said its history was scattered across the five states where it served. Federal records place it with John Gregg's brigade at Port Hudson, with George Cosby's brigade of Red Jackson's cavalry division during the siege of Vicksburg under Captain James A. Hoskins, and with States Rights Gist's brigade at Jackson on May 14, 1863. A Sons of Confederate Veterans camp built the case for this marker from descendants' research and asked for Railroad Park as the site, because the guns arrived and left by rail.
Where it stands
31.57735, -90.44367 · Directions
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