While Union troops inched toward Rebel lines, Grant, who tended to drink when bored, took a gunboat up the Yazoo River and went on a two-day bender. In Vicksburg, Rebel soldiers lived on bits of mule meat and a mush of peas and cornmeal. He did on the siege's 47th day. Two kinds of tombstones mark the graves of Union dead from Vicksburg and other battles. Markers 1 feet high show the resting places of soldiers whose names are known.
Blocks only inches high designate the unknown.
From a distance, tall markers are seen.