The Memorial Art and Architecture of Vicksburg National Military Park

In the heyday of Civil War commemoration at the turn of the twentieth century, Mississippi's Vicksburg National Military Park was considered "the art park of the South”. The Memorial Art and Architecture of Vicksburg National Military Park chronicles the preservation of the battlefield and its establishment as the southernmost of five national military parks formed in the 1890s.

Michael W. Panhorst is a historian of art and architecture, curator, teacher, and historic preservationist who has participated in the Save Outdoor Sculpture! program of Heritage Preservation and development of the Smithsonian's Inventory of American Sculpture. He has lectured and published widely about monuments and memorials, and his photographs have been published in Civil War Art, the Alabama Review, Sculpture Review, and Sculpture magazine. His photo essay on the earliest Civil War battlefield monuments is forthcoming in Southern Cultures.