The Connecticut monument at Vicksburg National Park will be formally dedicated Tuesday in Mississippi.
The monument honors soldiers of the 9th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Irish Regiment,” one of 30 regiments the state contributed during the Civil War. The regiment, which contained volunteers from 70 Connecticut towns, was central to the effort to dig a canal across DeSoto Point, a peninsula created by a bend in the Mississippi River near Vicksburg in the summer of 1862.
The black granite monument features Connecticut's coat of arms, the crest of the 9th Connecticut Infantry and faces of men of the regiment.
