Rex and Nancy's Travels - "ALL WHO WANDER ARE NOT LOST" - JRR Tolkein

We left Vidalia Thursday morning and headed north about 70 miles to Vicksburg, MS.   We are staying at Magnolia RV Park Resort in Vicksburg.   The sites here are long but very narrow so we do not have much room between rigs but they do have a big grassy dog park. After getting set up and eating lunch we went to the Mississippi State Welcome Center where we got information about the area.   It cooled off enough this evening so we could sleep with the windows open. Friday morning we drove across town to the Vicksburg National Military Park.   From the start of the Civil War control of the Mississippi River south of Cairo, IL was vitally important to the federal government.   Controlling it would let Union troops and supplies pass into the South.   It would isolate Texas, Arkansas, and most of Louisiana, a region crucial to the South for supplies and recruits.   To protect this lifeline the Confederates built fortifications at str...