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Southern Magnolias? Not a treefag.
TREE# 18, Section 37, near gravesite 3906-1: Champion Hill
Southern Magnolia
TREE# 18, Section 37, near gravesite 3906-1: Champion Hill
Southern Magnolia
In the spring of 1863, Union General Ulysses S. Grant launched a campaign toseize the Confederate bastionof Vicksburg on the
Mississippi River. The battle took place atChampion Hill,where Confederate forces were driven back toward the defenses of Vicksburg.
After a siege of more than a month, Vicksburg fell to Union troops. The Champion Hill Southern Magnolias stood in the yard of the Coker House
near Champion Hill.
https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Portals/0/Docs/MOH_Memorial_Trees.pdf