Your Donations at Work
Preserving this hallowed ground is not just about honoring history — it’s about keeping the story alive for every visitor, today and for generations to come. If you value history, education, and the enduring power of remembering, we hope you’ll join us in supporting this meaningful work.
Preservation
Your donations help protect Vicksburg’s historic landscapes from development and preserve them for future education, research, and interpretation.
Your support helped:
Save high-risk battlefield land near the South Loop from commercial development.
Preserve seven historic acres at Anshe Chesed Cemetery.
Protect 11 acres at Railroad Redoubt in partnership with the American Battlefield Trust.
Conduct annual controlled burns to improve maintenance and restore historic battlefield views.
Professionally clean and protect nearly every state monument in the park.
Preserve National Cemetery headstones using D/2 Biological Solution.
Restoration
Your donations help restore Vicksburg’s historic monuments, interpretive resources, and battlefield landscapes.
Your support helped:
Remove post-war intrusions and return battlefield land to its historic appearance.
Replace 22 cast-iron interpretive tablets removed and melted down during World War II.
Fully restore the Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, and Rhode Island memorials.
Restore 90 acres of historic battlefield views to better reflect the landscape’s 1863 appearance.
Capital Projects
Your donations support major projects that improve visitor access, strengthen park infrastructure, and create new opportunities to experience Vicksburg’s history.
Your support helped:
Advance plans for a new Visitor Center that will welcome, orient, and educate future visitors.
Fund a $550,000 access and interpretation project at Champion Hill by leveraging private donations with additional funding sources.
Create paved pull-offs and parking areas, orientation kiosks, interpretive panels, and an enhanced trail system near the historic Crossroads.
Education
Your donations create engaging programs and resources that connect students, families, and lifelong learners with the history of Vicksburg.
Your support helped:
Create “Soldier for a Day,” expand Junior Ranger Summer Camps, and launch career-focused Ranger-in-Training Camps.
Research unidentified soldiers’ graves in partnership with Harvard University.
Develop the free Vicksburg Battle App with the American Battlefield Trust and create the Vicksburg Animated Map.
Launch the Undertold Stories Speaker Series to highlight overlooked history.
Present living history programs featuring Civil War generals, Douglas the Camel, and the United States Colored Troops (USCT) Cavalry.
Advocacy
Your donations help build public and legislative support for the funding, protection, and long-term stewardship of Vicksburg’s historic resources.
Your support helped:
Secure $43 million for extensive repairs to storm-damaged park roads and Vicksburg National Cemetery.
Add the battlefields of Port Gibson, Champion Hill, and Raymond to VNMP.
Obtain $5.9 million from Congress to address erosion and damage at Railroad Redoubt.
Facilitate the transfer of 850 historic acres at Champion Hill and Port Gibson from the State of Mississippi to VNMP.
Bring local, state, and federal elected officials to the park for firsthand assessments of issues requiring government support.
Volunteers
Your donations provide volunteers and interns with the resources needed to care for the park, serve visitors, and gain valuable hands-on experience.
Your support helped:
Expand the volunteer corps, add resident volunteers, and more than double annual volunteer hours for five consecutive years.
Provide housing and professional development opportunities for VNMP interns.
Earn the national George and Helen Hartzog Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service.
Place flags at nearly 17,000 graves in Vicksburg National Cemetery each Memorial Day weekend.
Support Park Day projects, including cleaning historic sites and headstones and maintaining signs and cannons.
Commemorate the 150th anniversary of Vicksburg’s surrender with luminaries placed throughout the park.
