Downtown Vicksburg was beautiful and quaint. There are little museums and great murals.
The museum that I visited is the Lower Mississippi museum that talks about sustaining the Mississippi, controlling flooding, moving materials, and sustaining ecosystems. I also toured the Mississippi barge.
The National Military Park has the monuments and history of one of the most important battles of the civil war. It is pretty solemn to see the state monuments on both lines.
I went to Cedar Hill cemetery to find the grave of Douglas the camel that carried supplies for the Confederates. He is not actually buried there as his bones was used for mementoes. He is honored along with the any others that were buried in the areas of the cemetery. Looking around at the graves and the others that were buried by their actual family, the loss of life is profound.
The USS Cairo was a Union gunboat that was sunk in the civil war. It is pretty impressive along with the artifacts that were rescued from it.
The view nearby of the Mississippi and the Yazoo river (where the Cairo was sunk). The Mississippi is to the far left.
