{"id":79,"date":"2005-07-21T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2013-02-09T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T16:02:02","slug":"vicksburg-illinois-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/vicksburg-illinois-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicksburg Illinois Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos from Vicksburg, June 2004.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1183\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/illinois_memorial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/illinois_memorial-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Illinois Memorial at Vicksburg (photo by Kermit Murray)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/illinois_memorial-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/illinois_memorial.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illinois Memorial at Vicksburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/vick\/historyculture\/illinois-memorial.htm \">Illinois Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/mmb_plaque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/mmb_plaque-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Vicksburg Illinois Memorial plaque\" title=\"Mississippi Marine Brigade plaque at Vicksburg (photo by Kermit Murray)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/mmb_plaque-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/mmb_plaque.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA portion of the plaque inside the Illinois Memorial.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This tablet, contains the names so far as they can be ascertained, of the officers and men from Illinois, who served upon the staff of General Grant, or of the Corps, Division and brigade commanders, and also those from Illinois, who served in the Navy or Mississippi Marine Brigade during the campaign and siege of Vicksburg. Those, and the names inscribed in bronze on the interior of this memorial were compiled by the Illinois-Vicksburg Military Park Commission from the Records of the State of Illinois.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1186\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/blow_up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/blow_up-300x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vicksburg Illinois Monument plaque detail (photo by Kermit Murray)\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/blow_up-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/blow_up.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicksburg Illinois Monument plaque detail<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nPlaque Detail<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1187\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/ellet_monument.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/ellet_monument-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ellet Monument Vicksburg (photo by Kermit Murray)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/ellet_monument-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/ellet_monument.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicksburg Ellet monument<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nEllet on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/vick\/historyculture\/navy-memorial.htm\">Navy Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated<\/strong> 6\/2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos from Vicksburg, June 2004. Illinois Memorial A portion of the plaque inside the Illinois Memorial. &#8220;This tablet, contains the names so far as they can be ascertained, of the officers and men from Illinois, who served upon the staff of General Grant, or of the Corps, Division and brigade commanders, and also those &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/vicksburg-illinois-memorial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vicksburg Illinois Memorial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,17],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-illinois","tag-murray","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}