Alt Text Map of Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi. In the right third of the map, the apostrophe-shaped park is outlined in green. The Mississippi River is shown in blue, highways in red, local roads in white, and the terrain in beige. Extended Description This description will begin in the park before moving to the city of Vicksburg and the surrounding areas, including Louisiana to the east of the Mississippi River, before a full transcription of the legend. Vicksburg National Military Park Across the map, monuments are shown as red triangles but most are within the park. Tour stops are in the park, numbered and labeled in blue. The upper loop is about four times larger than the southern loop. In that northern section, the eastern side of the loop is Union Avenue and the western side is Confederate Avenue. Tour stop 1, labeled Battery De Golyer near Michigan monument, is about halfway up the eastern edge of the upper loop. From here the tour stops run counterclockwise around the loops. Shirley House is stop 2. Just before Shirley House, a spur heads west off Union Avenue to pass the Illinois Monument as it heads to stop 3, Third Louisiana Redan. The sites continue as follows: the Wisconsin monument is near stop 4, Ransom’s Gun Path and the West Virginia monument is near stop 5, Stockade Redan Attack. The Kansas, African American Monument, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire monuments lead to Grant’s Headquarters Area along a looping spur marked Grant Avenue to the northeast. Another loop off Grant Avenue leads to Sherman Circle. Union Avenue turns west and passes stop 6, Thayer’s Approach and continues first northwest and then southwest to the Navy monument near stop 7, Battery Selfridge on Connecting Avenue. The U.S.S. Cairo Museum is on a narrow loop next to a wider circuit that surrounds stop 8, Vicksburg National Cemetery. Stop 9, Fort Hill, is on the southern end of Connecting Avenue before the road turns east and then south as Confederate Avenue. Sites are encountered as follows: Tennessee monument, Stockade Redan as stop 10, Arkansas and Missouri monuments, and Louisiana monument near stop 11, Great Redoubt. Here Confederate and Union avenues are connected by Pemberton Avenue, which passes the Surrender Interview Site. Confederate Avenue continues past Mississippi monument and stop 12, Second Texas Lunette, before swinging east past the Visitor Center and Memorial Arch and then north, now as Union Avenue, past Minnesota monument. US Route 80 crosses the map from Washington Street, also marked Bus 61, which runs mostly parallel and close to the Mississippi River, off the right edge of the map. A connecting route near the Visitor Center crosses US Route 80 where the stops and memorials continue on the smaller loop: Railroad Redoubt as stop 13, Texas monument, Alabama monument, Kentucky Confederate Monument, Georgia Monument, Fort Garrott as stop 14, Indiana monument, Hovey’s Approach as stop 15, Kentucky monument, and Iowa monument. Surrounding Areas The city of Vicksburg is southwest of the park and near the center of the map. White lines create a mostly regular grid of roads, some of which are named. Several fan out from the northern tip of Vicksburg, including Fort Hill Drive, Sky Farm Avenue, Openwood Street, which becomes Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, Jackson Street, East Main Street, and Grove Street. The Lower Mississippi River Museum and Old Court House Museum are in this area, and both are open to the public. In red, Clay Street runs east-west just south of Grove Street to pass the Visitor Center in the park and become US Route 80 past Exit 4. Roads south of this include Bowmar Avenue, Halls Ferry Road, and North Frontage Road closer into the center of town. Five monuments line South Confederate Avenue, which runs diagonally toward the park. From south to north, these are Virginia, South Carolina, Maryland, Florida, and North Carolina. Just south of this, Interstate 20 crosses the Mississippi River near three sites marked with green dots: Navy Circle, South Fort, and Louisiana Circle (Mississippi Overlook). Interstate 20 runs diagonally up past the lowest quarter of the park before extending off the right edge of the map. Starting from near the river, exits on Interstate 20 include Exit 1A with Washington Street. Exit 1B connects with US Route 61, which runs south. Exit 1C at Halls Ferry Road, Exit 3 at Indiana Avenue, Exit 4 at US Route 80, and Exit 5 are marked. US Route 61 runs north of Exit 5 and State Route 27 runs south next to a note reading “To Natchez Trace Parkway.” The Historic Southern Railroad of Mississippi cuts across the map and runs alongside the river. Louisiana is across the river to the west. That half of the map is dominated by two waterways. The current course of the river is shown in white edged with brighter, aqua blue. The historic course of the river from around 1863 is shown in muted blue. What is now a shallow curve was, around 1863, a hairpin curve. The Chickasaw Bayou Battlefield is north of the historic bend and the Yazoo River Diversion Canal cuts across that bend. Moving south along what used to be De Soto Point is a Delta and Grant’s Canal, which joined the two historic legs just inside where the modern river runs. The Connecticut monument is on the canal. Legend A scale in the lower right corner of the map measures distances of 0.5 and 1 kilometers and 0.5 and 1 miles. Bold red text below reads, “Relic Hunting Prohibited, Drone Use Prohibited.” A legend to the right reads as follows: Blue line on green for Tour road, Green for National Park Service land, Aqua blue for Present course of Mississippi River, Muted blue for 1863 course of Mississippi River, White number in a blue circle for Tour stop, Green circle for Additional park site, Red triangle for Monument, and Symbols for Picnic area and Wheelchair-accessible.