The Seize at Vicksburg

ID: 1641
This file appears in: Gen. Lloyd Tilghman

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.

This file appears in: Gen. Lloyd Tilghman

By McKenzie Martin
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…