Burial Site of Lynching Victims

Five Sicilian men hanged by a mob in Tallulah, Louisiana, on July 20, 1899, lie here in Cedar Hill Cemetery. The Italian Society of Vicksburg reburied them on July 28. They were Giuseppe, Pasquale and Francesco Di Fatta, Giovanni Cerami and Rosario Fiduccia, though spellings vary. No one was punished, and the dispute with Italy ended in an indemnity paid only to the families of the two men whose citizenship was not in doubt. Descendants of Giuseppe Di Fatta sponsored this 2021 marker. The lynching itself is told in The Tallulah Lynchings of 1899.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 1.0 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.
• Old Court House Museum — 1.1 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.5 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.

More markers nearby

• Soldiers Rest C.S.A. Cemetery — 0.2 mi
• Dr. Lemuel James Bowie — 0.7 mi
• St. Mary's Catholic Church — 0.8 mi
• St. Mary's Catholic School — 0.8 mi