Well...I have another trip to Port Hudson planned from 3/23-3/26. There is a reenactment there on 3/25-26. I also have a road trip to/from Franklin/Spring Hill,TN planned from 6/3-6/11. We'll probably hit some places in Arkansas on the way and Murfreesboro too at the very least. I could see me making another trip to Vicksburg in September or October maybe if some other things don't shake out. I really wanna make a road trip to Mobile Bay and the Mobile area this year too.Well, I hate this thread has come to an end. I really enjoyed it and looked forward to each post everyday these past weeks! It was one great escape, for sure! Thanks so much!
I'll look forward to you return to Mississippi! And hope to meet you then over a good steak!
Thank you for that info, I would never have guessed that, never heard of it before.@Vicksburger There ya go. I knew someone in this thread would know the answer to your question.
Yes someday I hope all the Vicksburg fans on this forum, ( the Mississippians, Texans, and Unreconstructed rebels, you know who you are) can meet up in the great state of Mississippi, on a glorious summer day, at the great historic city of Vicksburg, and discuss in person the answers to all our civil war questions. But this thread has been great, and until then we can just scroll back over the pictures. Thanks for all the great info and photos!Bravo !
Ditto !
Include me in the reservations when it comes to the steak dinner.
That is one of the places I did not make. I already had a list of 7 places to go next time I visit Vicksburg. Now there are 8 places on the list.I hope you didn't miss the ghost town Rodney very near the Windsor ruins. Once a very thriving river port before the CW, it declined and eventually became extinct when the Mississippi changed course after the war. There are few reminders but the best known is the impressive Presbyterian church with a cannon ball shot from the USS Rattler one Sunday morning (the ball is not the original) lodged in its brick facade. There are also remnants of Confederate works around the structure.
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Might pass you on Hwy 61.....I'm heading to Vicksburg 3/23 - 3/26.Well...I have another trip to Port Hudson planned from 3/23-3/26. There is a reenactment there on 3/25-26. I also have a road trip to/from Franklin/Spring Hill,TN planned from 6/3-6/11. We'll probably hit some places in Arkansas on the way and Murfreesboro too at the very least. I could see me making another trip to Vicksburg in September or October maybe if some other things don't shake out. I really wanna make a road trip to Mobile Bay and the Mobile area this year too.
It's funny you should say that. I've had a wild hair to take the 22nd off too and drive straight to Vicksburg early that day,spend the rest of that day and the 23rd in Vicksburg,then drive to Port Hudson early on the 24th. That'd be a roadtrip.Might pass you on Hwy 61.....I'm heading to Vicksburg 3/23 - 3/26.
Yes someday I hope all the Vicksburg fans on this forum, ( the Mississippians, Texans, and Unreconstructed rebels, you know who you are) can meet up in the great state of Mississippi, on a glorious summer day, at the great historic city of Vicksburg, and discuss in person the answers to all our civil war questions. But this thread has been great, and until then we can just scroll back over the pictures. Thanks for all the great info and photos!
And there's no rule that says we can only have one CWT get-together a year either. Those hamsters were spinning their cages in my head last night.Last year was the September to Remember at Gettysburg, and many members want to repeat that location again this year as well, but we were talking before we left about having a gathering in Vicksburg. I think everyone's talking about meeting in Chickamauga-Chattanooga for 2018 but Vicksburg should definitely be on the radar for some time in the near future. With this much advance notice, @Vicksburger, @alan polk or some of the other participants in this thread ought to be able to come up with a tentative itinerary for a long weekend - I know I'd attend!
The VNMP arch DID originally span a road, but it was Clay Street, not Polk. Polk is a small residential street off Washington, not far from the river. The photos and discussion in this thread are so great to view/read!As I seem to remember, Vicksburg's Polk Street leading east from downtown was then so narrow (built for Model T's) that the archway in my 2007 photo below was originally built spanning it; much later it was moved inside the park and re-erected on Union Avenue like in the photo. Driving under the arch one would make a turn onto the park road and drive down Confederate Avenue to where the Jefferson Davis statue stands - then it was across from a rambling ca. 1940's or '50's white frame building that served as both museum and park headquarters. After that, the next "official" tour stop was at Pemberton's statue and since he and local "Hometown Hero" Davis represented the Confederate High Command, all the plaques pertaining to the Confederate side of the campaign on army level were placed there. Division, brigade, battery, etc. level plaques were and still are located at appropriate intervals on the park roads near to where the units were placed during the siege.
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The Minnesota Monument was being worked on and I couldn't get a picture of it. Looking at the NPS map,I just now discovered there are some state monuments that I did not get pics of. There are 6 state monuments and the African-American Monument clustered in a relatively small area in the northeast part of the park. I remember driving through there with my guide in the morning and had intended to go back there later for pictures. Either I didn't make it back up there or I did and thought I had taken pics. Or I may have been in a hurry to get to the USS Cairo and the National Cemetery on the second pass through the park. It was a full day.
I was in a hurry to get to the Cairo and Cemetery and didn't have my VNMP map open. So much to see there that I forgot that I wanted to go back up there for pics later.Those monuments that you mention are along or near Grant's Circle, and include the Massachusetts, which was the first state monument dedicated in the entire park! (Another Massachusetts-Vicksburg connection. )
You might. Think I'm going to Frogmore Cotton Plantation first on 3/23. Not sure if I'm heading straight to Port Hudson after that or not. If I do,I'll be heading south on Hwy 61 sometime in the afternoon. Depends on how much daylight is left. Might make a run to Camp Moore Museum and Cemetery first.Might pass you on Hwy 61.....I'm heading to Vicksburg 3/23 - 3/26.
The VNMP arch DID originally span a road, but it was Clay Street, not Polk. Polk is a small residential street off Washington, not far from the river. The photos and discussion in this thread are so great to view/read!
Polk Street in Vicksburg is kind of a sentimental favorite of mine.Thank you for the correction; I remembered it was the main east-west Vicksburg street, pre-Interstate, and was named for a leading statesman of the time - I just settled on the wrong one. Welcome to the Forums!
Thanks for sharing this.just in case anyone would be interested.