The Seize at Vicksburg
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After being released as a prisoner of war, General Tilghman was assigned to Mississippi. He would be mortally wounded by a shell at the Battle of Vicksburg. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Gen. Lloyd Tilghman
Historical Marker #1043 in McCracken County remembers Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman.
Tilghman was born in Maryland on January 26, 1818. At age fifteen, he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated five years…